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Hi all,

I have a channel of products with url structure:

/products/product_url

The products channel has the following categories assigned:

Category Group 1
  Category 1
  Category 2
Category Group 2
  Category 3
  Category 4

On a product entry page, I want to list all of the products from the same category that the product is located within. Kind of an automated related products, or product range section.

How would I go about doing this? I have tried several methods, or embedding templates, using gw:code categories and child categories. But seem to hit a brick wall.

Thanks,
Ian

There’s always many ways to do the same thing, but using only EE features I’d use channel:entries, category tag pair and channel:category_archive. I’ve not tested this code, just output from memory and referring to the docs.

Inside your Channel tag use an embed.

{exp:channel:entries
channel="products"
limit="1"
}
<article>
    <h2>{title}</h2>
<p></article></p>

<p><aside><br />
{embed="site/related_entries" cat="{categories backspace='1'}{category_id},{/categories}"}<br />
</aside></p>

<p>{/exp:channel:entries}

Then in the embed use:

{exp:channel:category_archive
channel="products"
show="{embed:cat}"
style="nested"
}
    {categories}
        <h3>{category_name}</h3>
<p>    {/categories}<br />
    {entry_titles}<br />
        <a href="http://{path=SITE_INDEX}">{title}</a><br />
    {/entry_titles}<br />
{/exp:channel:category_archive}