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I am trying to grab the category ID from the last segment to use in a redirect back to that category page but nothing is showing up.

My main page is http://domain.com/store/shop/C28, then you click to view a single entry.

the entry is http://domain.com/store/product_detail/158

where 158 is the entry_id to display a dynamic entry showing one product.

In my redirect (after adding the product to a cart) I want to go back to http://domain.com/store/shop/C28

I have tried to use this in my add to cart but nothing is parsing for the seg2cat

return="http://hookingrugs.com/store/shop/C{last_segment_category_id}"}

When I view source I just see http://hookingrugs.com/store/shop/C"

with no ID.

Even if I just place {last_segment_category_id} on the page outside of any other tags I still get nothing. Why does low seg2cat not pick up on the last entry ID.

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  • Have you tried passing {last_segment_category_id} as an embedded variable?
    – CreateSean
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 17:39
  • how would I do that? Shouldn't it work just on the page not inside of any tags? Is my issue that I am using <a href="{entry_id_path='store/product_detail/'}">
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 17:41
  • Is the category group which this category belongs to enabled? CP Home > Extensions > Low Seg2Cat > Extension Settings
    – Sobral
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 18:53
  • IT was set to ALL
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 19:07

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Low Seg2Cat doesn't pick-up category information associated with channel entry IDs in the URL - it picks up category information associated with category URL titles in the URL.

So, it is working, but it doesn't do what you thought it might do.

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  • that is what I was guessing entry_id vs url_title
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 17:56
  • So if I am on this page domain.com/store/shop/C28 Shouldn't I be able to use: {last_segment_category_name} {last_segment_category_description}
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 18:25
  • Yes, you should.
    – Derek Hogue
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 18:48
  • doesn't work with C28 but DOES work when using category_url_title as the segment.. Problem is low seg2cat does not offer {last_segment_category_url_title}
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 19:06
  • this was my only option return="domain.com/store/shop/category{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}"}
    – Peter Eastwood
    Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 19:10

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