Use pages instead of data module to define Product Categories
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Key: MSHOP-17
URL: http://jira.magnolia-cms.com/browse/MSHOP-17
Project: Magnolia Shop
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Boris Kraft
Assignee: Teresa Miyar
Priority: Blocker
I spoke with Will why he has used the data module to define the product
category hierarchy instead of using a "Product Category" page template to do
so. The reason why is that he wanted to be able to have localized URL's for SEO
reasons. In other words, this is a workaround, nothing more, and makes
understanding and using the shop module unnecessarily complicated.
Please define a page template "Product Category" and ensure this works the same
way like now to support localization. In other words, if the page is served for
German, the URL should contain the German category (== Page Title) (currently
in addition to the English one but I think we could drop the English one in
that case)
If so, this would solve a lot of issues at once:
# it would be *much* more intuitive to create the product category hierarchy
# it would allow us to use standard pages & their functionality for instance to
have a header per product category
# it would reduce the complexity of the shop configuration interface (because
the categories move out of the data module)
# it would make it clear what product categories actually are (i.e. that they
define the page hierarchy)
Once implemented, drop the Product Categorization scheme we currently use as it
would not be needed anymore. Update the product category selection dialog for
the products to use this page structure instead.
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