Url rewrites not working for categories

[choleaoum]

Url rewrites not working for categories

[patrick-bigbridge]

I made the fix and released 1.4.1.

[patrick-bigbridge]

Hello,

I am sorry you had this trouble with this problem. I hope I can explain this a bit.

Basically, the importer is a product importer. It is not intended to import categories. The only thing the importer does is to create a basic entry in the category tables, for the categories that did not yet exist, so that the products can be linked to it. So it's just a quick initial population of categories.

The reason why the categories are created at the admin-level is that the category's name serves as an identifier in the import. It is important that it remains unchanged. This is not a problem because the name of the category can be set at the store view level, and changing it later at this level will not interfere with the importer.

Once the categories are created, the importer uses the admin name to look up the id. Categories are not updated.

As to the url_rewrite table. I am looking at the code and I see that an entry is written to the url_rewrite table at store view 0 (admin). This was just silly of me. It doesn't do anything. url_rewrite entries are not inherited, an entry needs to exist for each store view.

You are correct to change the store_id to 1 to make it work for your (only) store view. This works well for the initial population of the categories.

I hope this helps you to understand why things work as they do. Let me know your thoughts.

greetings,

Patrick

[choleaoum]

Ah this was a great explanation, it's been awhile since I worked with Magento so it's all a beccome a bit foreign to me. So I guess it's safe to hard code the store_id's myself. I don't have any intentions on having multiple stores just yet, but I was under the presumption that although there are no other categories with store_id > 0, everything would just default to that category?

[patrick-bigbridge]

Thanks. Yes changing the store id's to 1 is fine. The value of normal attributes defaults to the admin level. Not so for the url_rewrite table.

[patrick-bigbridge]

I will change the importer in a few days so that it generates url_rewrites for the existing store views, in stead of the store view 0 (which has no use).