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Hi,

We have complex nested Categories defined for our Channels.  URLs on our EE site are then generated in templates with the following code inside of a channel:entries tag:

{categories limit=‘1’ group_id=‘1’ parent_only=‘yes’}
  {if count > 0}
  <a href=”/expertise/{category_url_title}/insights/{url_title}”>
  {if:else}
  <a href=”#”>
  {/if}
{/categories}

When I activate these channels in the site map it pulls the incorrect {category_url_title} for the URL.  Is there a way to handle this within the site map plugin?

how are you entering the url for these channels in the sitemap module? the {cat_url_title} tag is supported as explained in the module preferences section of the docs.

Thanks for you’re help.

I’m entering the URLs like this, per the docs:  http://domain.com/expertise/{cat_url_title}/insights/{url_title}

However, this generates incorrect URLs because it inputs the wrong {cat_url_title} value. 

The plugin creates this URL:  http://domain.com/expertise/payment-delivery-reform/insights/new-trends-and-analysis-for-aco-participants

But the correct URL should be:  http://domain.com/expertise/managed-care/insights/new-trends-and-analysis-for-aco-participants

If you look at the code sample above when we generate these URLs on the site we limit the categories to group_id=‘1’ and parent_only=‘yes’. 

Is there a way to handle this?

are your entries assigned to more than one category? as per the docs:

if an entry is assigned to multiple categories then only the first category will be used in parsing

Ok, in some cases we have parent categories with IDs that are greater than child category IDs.  In this case it is pulling the Child category as “first”.  But I need to pull the parent category.  Where in the plugin code can I change this?  We cannot easily change the category IDs.

FYI, I was able to get this working by modifying the query in mod.sitemap.php starting on line 132.

good to hear, would you mind posting your changed code here for anyone trying to do something similar in future?

I am having the issue something like this. The site is having URL like siteurl.com/product/{parent_category}/{child_category}/{url_title}

Could you please let me know if there is any way to handle it.

Thanks,

Sorry Bhashkar, Sitemap only supports using a single category in the URL template.

Thanks for your quick response.

Could you please help me with any hack if possible.

Thanks,

It’s actually a fairly involved change to the query (the current query uses a JOIN statement to grab the single category, whereas fetching multiple categories would require a separate query altogether) - so it’s beyond a quick hack I can offer here. To tackle it yourself, start around line 214 of mod.sitemap.php.

Thanks for your quick response.

Yes, I did it successfully. I added a new tag {cat_breadcrumbs} and made URL like:

But found another limitation. Only one URL can be added per channel. I think, there would be facility to add more than one URL per channel.

Not sure how to resolve it at my end :( .

Thanks

Clever workaround Bhashkar.

Re: “one URL per-channel” - those are simply URL templates. Sitemap will in actuality output a sitemap node which follows that template for each entry in each channel you assign it to.