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Hi -

Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can resolve this:

I would like to change the layout and contents of the sidebar on my index template depending on whether it is displaying a a category based or full entry list. Initially I though I could use “if category” or “if not_category” but then I realised these apply at entry level, not page level, and only within a channel:entries tag.

There must be a way to do this at page level ....

Thanks
David

Hi David,

I’ve moved this over to the Community Help forum since it’s more of a question about how to best accomplish something. Could you post back the template code you’re using, including the way you’d like for this to work (even if it’s not technically correct)?

Hi Kevin,

Well actually I’ve found a solution. It isn’t elegant, to my mind, but it works:

{if segment_2 == "" }
  <h2 class=“sidebarTitle”>{my_channel_name}: Home</h2>
  {sng_sidebar_recent_entries}
  {sng_sidebar_search}
  {sng_sidebar_blogroll}
  {sng_sidebar_monthly_archives}
  {sng_sidebar_syndicate}

{if:else}
  {sng_sidebar_category_info}
  {sng_sidebar_search}
  {sng_sidebar_categories_archive}
  {sng_sidebar_syndicate}
{/if}

If there’s a better way of doing this I’d love to hear of it!

David

You could try Sherlock: https://github.com/themusicman/Sherlock.

I need to document it better, but it gives you what you are looking for.  It makes some assumptions about your url structure, but those assumptions can be overridden. Sample usage:

{exp:sherlock:page_type}
    {if is_pagination} 
        There are a lot of these.
    {/if} 
    {if is_pagination && is_category}
        There are a lot of these to filter.
    {/if} 
    {if is_entry}
       Something with the entry here.
    {/if}
    {if page_type == 'category'} 
        Lets filter these entries a little.
    {/if}
{/exp:sherlock:page_type}

All of the conditionals come with the negative to:

{exp:sherlock:page_type}
    {if is_not_pagination} 
        There are a lot of these.
    {/if} 
    {if is_not_pagination && is_not_category}
        There are a lot of these to filter.
    {/if} 
    {if is_not_entry}
       Something with the entry here.
    {/if}
{/exp:sherlock:page_type}

Sounds like it’s just what I need. I’ll give it a go, thanks.