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Dennis Frank

Posted: 17 June 2010 08:28 PM

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Hi,

is it possible to output a custom category fields?

I tried to use {exp:weblog:categories show=”{child_category_id}”} but it does not work for me:

{exp:child_categories category_group="4" weblog="{segment_1}" show_empty="no"}
    {parent_category_start}
        <optgroup label="{parent_category_name}">
    {parent_category_end}
        {child_category_start}
            <option value="{child_category_url_title}">
                {exp:weblog:categories category_group="4" show="{child_category_id}" weblog="{segment_1}" style="linear"}
                    {custom_category_field}
                {/exp:weblog:categories}
            </option>
        {child_category_end}
    {parent_wrapper_bottom_start}
        </optgroup>
    {parent_wrapper_bottom_end}
{/exp:child_categories} 

Any ideas?

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Dennis Frank

Posted: 17 June 2010 08:51 PM

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So this seems to work:

{child_category_start}
    <option value="{child_category_url_title}">
        {exp:weblog:categories category_group="4" weblog="{segment_1}" show="{parent_category_id}|{child_category_id}" show_empty="yes" style="linear"}
            {if category_id != "{parent_category_id}"}
                {custom_category_field}
            {/if}
        {/exp:weblog:categories}
    </option>
{child_category_end} 

I had to include the parent category id in the show attribute and then filter it out again:


{if category_id != "{parent_category_id}"}

Not very elegant but it works.

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Forrest Anderson

Posted: 23 June 2010 05:09 PM

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Joined 02-25-2008

I have a section on a website that uses categories for organizing articles. I use the categories as navigation for this site and will be using this navigation to link to a page that displays that Parent Category Title and all associated entries as well as all child categories of that parent and their associated entries.

I would like the end result to look like this:

<h2>Category Title</h2>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>    

<h3>Sub-cateogry 1 Title</h3>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    
<h3>Sub-cateogry 2 Title</h3>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>    
    
<h3>Sub-cateogry 4 Title</h3>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p>
    <p><a href="#">Entry Title</a></p> 

I tried using this code, but it only displayed the category titles:

{exp:weblog:categories category_group="2"  weblog="articles"}
{exp:child_categories parent="{category_id}" child_categories_sort_by="custom" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="yes" entries_sort_by="date" entries_sort_direction="asc" entries_limit="5" site="1"}
        
{parent_category_start}
  <a href="{site_url}topic/{parent_category_id}">{parent_category_name}</a><br>
{parent_category_end}

{entries_start}
    <a href="{site_url}topic/{parent_category_id}/{url_title}/">{title}</a><br>
{entries_end}
        
{child_category_start}
  <a href="{site_url}topic/{child_category_id}">{child_category_name}</a><br>
{child_category_end}
        
{entries_start}
    <a href="{site_url}topic/{child_category_id}/{url_title}/">{title}</a><br>
{entries_end}

 {/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:weblog:categories} 

I am obviously missing something here and would appreciate some help. Thanks.

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Justin Viger

Posted: 25 June 2010 12:33 PM

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Joined 04-29-2009

Hello. I am having a problem that I think this plugin and the category_id plugin together should be able to fix, but I am not sure why it isn’t working. Here is the code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="sr_province" url_title="{segment_1}" dynamic="off"}
                    <img src="{sr_map}" alt="map" />
                    <h1>Snowmobiling in {title}</h1>
                    <p>{sr_intro}</p>
                {/exp:weblog:entries}
                <ul id="articlelinks">
                    {exp:category_id category_group="14" category_url_title="{segment_1}" parse="inward"}
                        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="sr_region" category="{category_id}" orderby="sr_entry_order" sort="asc" dynamic="off"}
                            <li>
                                <img src="{sr_summary_map}" alt="map" />
                                <h3><a href="/{segment_1}/{url_title}/">{title}</a></h3>
                                <p>{sr_summary}</p>
                                <h4>Snowmobile locations</h4>
                                <ul>
                                    {exp:category_id category_group="14" category_url_title="{url_title}" parse="inward"}
******                                 {exp:child_categories parent="{category_id}" parse="inward"}
                                            {child_category_start}
                                                <li>
                                                    <a href="/{segment_1}/{url_title}/{child_category_url_title}/">
                                                        {child_category_name}
                                                    </a>
                                                </li>
                                            {child_category_end}
                                        {/exp:child_categories}
                                    {/exp:category_id}
                                </ul>
                            </li>
                        {/exp:weblog:entries}
                    {/exp:category_id} 

Basically I need show content based on three levels on categories. Since it is destinations I have categories for canada and usa and then within canada I have province and within that regions and then within that I have cities. So for British Columbia page I need to show entry content for an entry called British Columbia. Then I need to list all regions tagged with the category British Columbia. and with the list of regions I need to list all cities that have been tagged as children of the region category.

It’s pretty much all working except for the one category_id tag, on the line I added the ****** to, is not showing the category_id of the region. If I type in a specific category_id it works, so I am assuming it is not getting the category_id using the category_id plugin, but I am not sure why.

Can anyone tell me if some of my code is a bit wrong? Or maybe I am going about this way wrong.

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Jonathan Schofield

Posted: 26 June 2010 01:05 PM

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Hi Laisvunas,

I love this plugin and, like one or two others who have asked, I wonder if you have any plans to make it EE2 compatible, especially now the end of beta is officially ‘near’?

I would pay to help its development. Any other takers?

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Forrest Anderson

Posted: 30 June 2010 08:34 AM

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Hi Laisvunas,

I figured it out. I was able to achieve my desired results as follows:

{exp:category_id category_group="2" category_url_title="{segment_2}" parse="inward"}    
            {exp:child_categories parent="{category_id}" child_categories_sort_by="custom" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="yes" entries_sort_by="date" entries_sort_direction="asc" entries_limit="3" site="1"}
                {parent_category_start}
                <h1><a href="{homepage}/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a></h1>
                {parent_category_end}
                {child_category_start}
                <h2><a href="{homepage}/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a></h2>
                Total entries: {entries_total}<br>
                {child_category_end}
                {entries_wrapper_top_start}<ul>{entries_wrapper_top_end}
                {entries_start}
                <li><a href="{weblog_url}{url_title}/">{title}</a> Weblog: {weblog_name}, posted: {entry_date}</li>
                {entries_end}
                {entries_wrapper_bottom_start}</ul>{entries_wrapper_bottom_end}
            {/exp:child_categories} 
        {/exp:category_id} 

Awesome plugins! Thank you.

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awa

Posted: 08 July 2010 05:20 AM

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Joined 04-04-2004

watershed - 26 June 2010 05:05 PM
Hi Laisvunas,
I would pay to help its development. Any other takers?

I´d be interested too.

Cheers
awa

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awa

Posted: 09 July 2010 10:13 AM

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Hi Laisvunas,
have you ever thought of going commercial with your plugin?
I be happy to pay 10€ - 15€ for THE category plugin, which I think “cild categories” can evolve into.
Frankly, I think, that EEs native category management capabilitys have room for improvment.

I´s like to have a cat plugin, that could be used in a
- single tag version
- version with opening and closing tags

The single tag version would be used with “parse=inward” as Elis plugin VZ Subcategories. (see http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/129357/).
It would be the input for the categories parameter of all those other tags.

The variant with opening and closing tags would display the categories as a list.

Both varants should be extremly configurable.
Basically the plugin should take an category ID (wether static or dynamic) and then I would love to see

- level parameters. Go x levels up or down in the hierarchy starting from where you are

- offset parameters. Go x levels up or down, but DON´T display the next y levels. Example: you´ re on level 3 and want to go 2 levels up, means you end up on the top level. Offset set to 1 would only display the given category + the top level categories, leaving out all cats on level 2.

- Display limitation (show only x cats)

- plus all the stuff, that´s already in. And ported to EE2.

Basically it would be a plugin, that would be the swiss knife converning category manipulation.

What do you think?

Cheers
awa

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russlipton

Posted: 09 July 2010 06:48 PM

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