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Can anyone help me find a solution here? I’m trying to generate a sequential list of entries grouped by category.

I’m using this code to generate a marker array:

{exp:channel:category_archive channel="membership_directory" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
  {categories}
      {exp:channel:entries channel="membership_directory" category="{category_id}”}
              markers[{count}] = SetMarker({count}, {entry_id}, {latitude}, {longitude}, ‘{title}’, ‘cat{category_id}’, ‘blank’); 
      {/exp:channel:entries}
  {/categories}
{/exp:channel:category_archive}

As you can see from the results here, I can get the array working fine, with the exception of the number sequence. The count starts over as each new category begins. Since I can’t have more than one marker with the same SetMarker number, I need the sequence to continue, regardless of when the next category begins.

Is there a better way to structure this, or an alternate counting method I can use?

Thanks,
Porter.

I don’t think there’s a simple solution to this within EE. Unless you can use the entry_id as the marker id?

markers.push(SetMarker({entry_id}, {entry_id}, {latitude}, {longitude}, ‘{title}’, ‘cat{category_id}’, ‘blank’));

But I think it can be solved easily by rethinking the javascript. I’d instead build a markers_data array in the EE loop, and then generate the markers array by iterating over the first array. Something like this:

var markers_data = [];
{exp:channel:category_archive channel=“membership_directory” style=“linear” show_empty=“no”}
  {categories}
      {exp:channel:entries channel=“membership_directory” category=”{category_id}”}
              markers_data.push([ {entry_id}, {latitude}, {longitude}, ‘{title}’, ‘cat{category_id}’, ‘blank’ ]);
      {/exp:channel:entries}
  {/categories}
{/exp:channel:category_archive}

var markers = []
for (var i=0; i<markers_data.length; i++) {
   markers<i> = SetMarker(i, markers_data[0], markers_data[1], markers_data[2], markers_data[3], markers_data[4], markers_data[5])
}

I’d of course use an object in the push(), but you get the idea.. 😊

No, entry id’s are not an option. Wish they were.

But I see where your javascript solution is going. Let me give it a whirl.

Thanks aelvan!
Porter.