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How to call discrete product data in Version 9? - Sku is needed!
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SteveFeher  
#1 Posted : Monday, August 26, 2019 2:19:38 PM(UTC)
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In previous versions of Ablecommerce, we leveraged the SKU value as follows:

In the CONLIB (ASCX) page:

Code:
<a href="<asp:literal id="PDFBrochureLink" runat="server"></asp:literal>" Title="View PDF of a Product Brochure" target="_blank"><img src="/shop/Assets/download_sample.png" style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom: 5px;" ></a>


In the CONLIB (.CS) page:

Code:
PDFBrochureLink.Text = "/shop/assets/PDFs/"+ _Product.Sku + ".pdf";   // We use the SKU field for the independent .PDF assignment.



Essentially, this enabled us to have a product PDF file that was physically named the same the Product SKU and then easily link to it.

Now that we're converting the site forward to AC Version 9, I'm looking for this same valuation to connect the SKU to a PDF link in a custom Widget Board. However, there's nothing to indicate the option for a SKU in the existing tools.

How can we do this in AC??

Thanks!
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judy at Web2Market  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:26:40 AM(UTC)
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In Razor syntax in a view, you can do (for want of a better way, if your view isn't using a model that includes the product sku, assuming this will be on the product page):
@using CommerceBuilder.Products
@{

Product product = AbleContext.Container.Resolve<IProductRepository>().Load(PageHelper.GetProductId());
string sku=product.Sku;

Then later on you can call @Html.Raw(sku) or something similar
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mazhar  
#3 Posted : Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:43:09 AM(UTC)
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You just need to convert the code for MVC. This part of your code which is in code behind can be converted to something like
Code:
PDFBrochureLink.Text = "/shop/assets/PDFs/"+ _Product.Sku + ".pdf";   // We use the SKU field for the independent .PDF assignment.

to
Code:
ViewBag.PDFBrochureLink = "/shop/assets/PDFs/"+ _Product.Sku + ".pdf";   // We use the SKU field for the independent .PDF assignment.


Now update the front end code from this
Code:
<a href="<asp:literal id="PDFBrochureLink" runat="server"></asp:literal>" Title="View PDF of a Product Brochure" target="_blank"><img src="/shop/Assets/download_sample.png" style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom: 5px;" ></a>

to
Code:
<a href="@ViewBag.PDFBrochureLink" title="View PDF of a Product Brochure" target="_blank"><img src="/shop/Assets/download_sample.png" style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom: 5px;" ></a>


If these updates were part of an existing out of the box conlib control then in AC9 you may have an action method decorated with RegisterWidget attribute where you will have to make code change to set ViewBag and in its related razor view you will have to make the second change to generate link.

I hope this would be helpful!
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mazhar  
#4 Posted : Friday, August 30, 2019 8:57:27 AM(UTC)
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For the above changes if you want to place it under the product image then the code changes must be made into ProductImage control. You will find the method called ProductImage in Website/Controllers/ProductController.cs file. Here you will need to set the ViewBag. For HTML change you will have to update Website/Views/Product/_ProductImage.cshtml file.

Another quick way to generate this URL could be to use the HTML snippet along with some javascript to generate the download URL. This is based on the fact that we do output SKU on product details page if it's available for the product. For example, simply create HTML snippet call it PDF Download. Then open HTML editor's source view, you will found it the right side of the toolbar with angle brackets icon. Then paste the following content inside it.
Code:

<a id="pdf-download" href="#" title="View PDF of a Product Brochure" target="_blank" style="display:none;"><img src="/shop/Assets/download_sample.png" style="padding-top:5px; padding-bottom: 5px;" ></a>
<script>
window.onload = function(){
var lists = document.getElementsByClassName("list-unstyled product-info");
if (lists !== undefined || lists.length !== 0) {
    var list = lists[0];
    var spanTags = list.getElementsByTagName("span");
    for (i = 0; i < spanTags.length; i++) {
        var spanTag = spanTags[i];
        if (spanTag.innerHTML.includes("SKU") && (i + 1) < spanTags.length){
            var sku = spanTags[i + 1].innerHTML;
            if (sku) {
                var link = document.getElementById("pdf-download");
                link.href = "/shop/assets/PDFs/"+ sku + ".pdf"
                link.style.display = "block";
            }
        }
    }
}}
</script>

Now save it. Finally drag drop this snippet under product image on product details page. Now if product has sku specified it will generate the download image for PDF having SKU in name.
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