magento2: "update" in category custom layout xml is ignored

I’m trying to add a custom handle through <update handle="my_shiny_handle" /> inside the custom layout xml of a category.

Preconditions

  1. magento 2.1.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. add a custom handle in app/code/Myname/Myext/view/frontend/layout/my_shiny_handle.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
    <body>
       <referenceBlock name="catalog.leftnav" remove="true" />
    </body>
</page>
  1. edit a category and set the following layout update xml: <update handle="my_shiny_handle" />
  2. cache clean
  3. load the category in the frontend

Expected result

  1. the catalog.leftnav should be removed and thus the update handle used

Actual result

  1. the catalog.leftnav is not removed and thus the update handle not used

the layout xml update for categories itself seems to work - when the action is added directly to the category layout update xml, it works just fine:

<container name="body">
  <referenceBlock name="catalog.leftnav" remove="true" />
</container>

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 8 years ago
  • Reactions: 3
  • Comments: 18 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

thanks @sergey-solo!

+1
heldchen on Aug 23, 2019
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