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Using "Amazon Browse" widget in panels/pages results in blank search results page

Project:Amazon Store
Version:6.x-2.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

Enabling the "Amazon Browse" widget in the details page displays a variety of Browse Node paths for the item being shown.

For example:

No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)
  Action & Adventure : Genre Fiction : Literature & Fiction : Subjects : Books :
  Movie Tie-Ins : Genre Fiction : Literature & Fiction : Subjects : Books :
  Literary : Literature & Fiction : Subjects : Books :
  All product : Products : :
  Books : Products : :

Clicking on the "Genre Fiction" link above takes us to:

/amazon_store?BrowseNode=10134&SearchIndex=Books

Which displays nothing in the results page. Just an empty search form populated with Category: Books. No results.

Same thing happens with all the "Amazon Browse" links I've tried so far.

I have the following options set in the settings page:

[x] Display search form
[x] Display "narrow by" form
[x] Display sort form
[x] Display category selection pulldown

Default Merchant ID for search:
Amazon
(x) All

Default search index selection on amazon_store page: Grocery

Default items for amazon_store page if no search has been done (no keywords present):
SearchIndex Only - Use Amazon's default browsenode for the selected search index
A browsenode specified below
(x) A list of Amazon ASINs specified below

Search index used to populate items on page with no keywords: Grocery

Default Browsenode ID:
16310101

Default Item List:
B000V17MLS,B002GQ3IDC,B000GHJJVI,B000JSQDT0,B000EN764G,B0001CVDZI,B000WQ1AYC,B000EICISA,B001XWRMXC,B000N542KQ

Categories to include in search box, category search block, etc. It's often preferable to exclude some categories:
(the following is a list of categories I've selected)
All
Beauty
Books
DVD
Gourmet Food
Grocery
Health/Personal Care
Kindle Store
Kitchen
Magazines

Comments

#1

I'm not sure, but I think the BrowseNode parameter handling is not working correctly... I never see any results when I visit /amazon_store?BrowseNode=SomeValidBrowseNodeId

#2

Just FYI, and I don't know if this is even relevant to this one, but when I was working on this a couple years ago, the folks at browsenodes.com were not even sure if Amazon was continuing down the path of supporting browsenodes, so it's possible that they're just "legacy".

Thanks for all the great work on everything!

#3

Yeah, I see that there are uncertainties about BrowseNodes but they are supported and documented at present, and we can get "Top Sellers" easily using them; I'd love to have a way to navigate top products (and other things) by BrowseNode.

Thanks for all the great work on everything!

Glad I can help. I need this module, I need it to work well, so it's an 'itch I need to scratch'. I'm not sure how much I'll be able to accomplish; the Amazon API is a bit opaque so I have lots of nuances to deal with.

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