Internet Sales B2C Subcategories

Question

Hello,
We want in our shop to get the subcategories we get clicking on the categories shown on the left frame of the web, in the middle frame (instead of a message "No products were found"). We're trying to get this reusing the bean of CategoriesB2C.jsp:
<jsp:useBean    id="subCategories" type="com.sapmarkets.isa.catalog.webcatalog.WebCatAreaList"  scope="request" >
</jsp:useBean>
and using the function iterator():
java.util.Iterator theAreas = subCategories.iterator();
                              int i=-1;
                            while (theAreas.hasNext()) {
                                i++;
                                WebCatArea theArea = (WebCatArea) theAreas.next();
to get the subcategories of the selected category on the ProductsB2C.jsp, but we get an empty "blank" screen.
Is there any way of doing this? Even just specifying the <jsp:useBean    id="subCategories" ... on this jsp we get the same error.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
If you get a blank screen when you make a change to some code it usually means there is a problem with the syntax of the .jsp page.
B2B and B2C by default does not show Java stack traces and so if a page is in error you just get a blank area in your frames.
One thing you can do to help is go into XCM where there is a setting that forces errors to be shown.  I can't remember the exact place and I don't currently have access so can't be more specific sorry - best check with someone who is familiar with XCM.
You will then hopefully see some Java stack trace identifying any problems.
Hope this helps,
Gareth.