Catalog active tab not saved [5.2.1-RC1]
- Alex
One of the main ways to enter website information is called Catalog (see image below):
Data about different items in catalog is grouped by tabs:
- Sections
- Links
- Articles
- Topics
- Products
- etc.
To start working with a specific data type you need to switch to a dedicated tab, e.g. "Products" and then proceed with data adding/editing.
I've recently noticed a bug, that Catalog tab isn't saved after you add/edit an item on that tab and user is returned back to "Sections" tab all that time, which is pretty annoying.
After a bit of debugging problem ended up with a specific cookies present on the page:
- is_catalog_active_prefix - active tab in "Catalog Item Selector"
- catalog_active_prefix - active tab in "Catalog"
Due used approach in cookie value reading from document.cookie property is happens, that value of "is_catalog_active_prefix" is read instead of "catalog_active_prefix" cookie value because:
- they names partially overlap
- cookie with longer name was written first
I suggest, that we change way of retrieving cookie value in JavaScript to one of proposed in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4003823/javascript-getcookie-functions article.