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Add collection handle to product URL

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# 1. Background

On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and they improve the findability of website sections and pages.

In this particular case we'll show how to set it up from the URL's perspective, which can then be further customised into actual breadcrumbs on the page.

# 2. Requirements

  • The only thing here is that this is only available for Shopify users.

# 3. Time Estimates

Set up in Platform: n/a
Integration: 30 minutes
Styling: n/a

# 4. Functional Overview

The list of components to be adjusted is as follows:

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Components

components/Cards/Product/index.tsx
layouts/Search/index.tsx

# 5. Integration Steps

If you want to add a collection handle to your product URL, e.g. if you have a collection: /collection/shorts and a product URL: /product/nice-shorts and you want to have collection breadcrumbs in the product page like this: /collection/shorts/products/nice-shorts.

To do that, you would need to update few lines of code.

{/* ... some code ... */}

export default ({
  item,
  theme = styles,
  className,
  config,
  Container = 'div',
  highlighted,
  isAutocomplete,
  isCollection
}: IProductCardProps) => {
  const collectionHandleUrl = `/${findify.utils.collectionPath() + item.get('product_url')}`;
  
  {/* ... some code ... */}
   
  const handleCollectionUrl = async (e) => {
    const openInNewWindow = e && (e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey);
    {/* Get collection path */}
    {/* Send events */}
    await item.analytics.sendEvent(
      'click-item',
      { rid: item.meta.get('rid'), item_id: item.get('id'), variant_item_id:  item.get('selected_variant_id')},
      !openInNewWindow
    );
    {/* Change location */}
    return location.href = collectionHandleUrl;
  };
  
  return (
    <a
      ref={container}
      data-element="card"
      className={cx(
        theme.root,
        theme[config.get('template')],
        highlighted && theme.highlighted,
        isAutocomplete && theme.autocomplete,
        className
      )}
      href={collectionHandleUrl}
			{/* Add collection handle */}
      onClick={e => isCollection ?  handleCollectionUrl(e) : item.onClick(e, isSearch)}
    >
		{/* ... some code ... */}
	 </a>
  );
};

{/* ... some imports ... */}

const Search = ({ isCollection, theme = styles }) => {
	
  {/* ... some code ... */}
  
  return (
    <>
       {/* ... some code ... */}
          <SearchResultsLayout 
    				{/* ... pass down isCollection prop ... */}
            isCollection={isCollection}
            condition={config.getIn(['pagination', 'type'])} />
    </>
  );
};

  {/* ... some code ... */}

Updated 6 months ago