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weird description issue

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Topic: weird description issue

Posted By: JWL
Subject: weird description issue
Date Posted: 13-July-2009 at 4:14pm

on the bto configuration pages the meta description doesn't display properly, instead of the description it has the first and last two keywords, something like this:

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="first keyword,     ,2ndtolastkeyword,lastkeyword">

anyone else get this issue?!  the description shows up on the rest of the pages.

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Posted By: ProductCart
Date Posted: 03-August-2009 at 5:58pm

This is determined by the following code contained in the file "pc/include-metatags.asp". When the description Meta Tag is empty for a product, ProductCart builds that description as shown in the following code.

'// Product Details Page: DESCRIPTION

if not isNull(mtPMetaDesc) and mtPMetaDesc<>"" then

 mtDescription=mtPMetaDesc

else

 mtDescription=mtPName & "," & mtPsDesc & "," & mtCDesc & "," & scCompanyName

end if

So it uses: product name + short description + category name + company name. You can certainly change this by editing the file itself. We will also review it and see if it should be changed for a future version.

This, however, is not just on the BTO configuration page. This is on all product pages.

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