This will also require a customization of the urlrewriter too. And, as a matter of fact, you can do all of this with just the urlrewriter without having to mod catalook code at all (I think).

Here is my solution....

http://www.ventrian.com/Support/ProductForums/tabid/118/forumid/35/postid/10876/view/topic/Default.aspx

What this allows is for you to have a specific rule where if the first item after portal alias matches a string, then you set the tabid to that string. So you would add using my code example

tabPath = Me.checkYAPTabPath(tabPath, "shop", "tabnameforcatalookstore")

Note that I have added a new update solution to this one posted (which I can post here soon) which extracts and adds the parameter to the qs. What I do is add the value to the qs path when writing the URL. So if it matches on shop you could add "&shop=motherboards" to qs (or "&catid=motherboards"). With this same code, you could also strip the last parameter, intel-d875pbz from url and add an additional parameter to qs "&productID=intel-d875pbz ".

So when the catalook store makes its request.querystring calls it will still get all the correct values and so you won't have to modify it.

Jason

Oops. I forgot you would have to mod catalook to write the new URL format. But with my solution posted, you would only have to add a mod for writing URLs and not for reading them.

Jason