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Hi,
I think I may have asked this before but here goes.

I have a channel for training courses - there are 9 courses altogether.

I use a (exp:channel:entries} loop to display a list of courses in a sidebar on our site, e.g..

Coursename 1
Coursename 2
Coursename 3
etc…

Each of these is a link that will display a page showing information about the course. The URL for the link is built as follows:

<li><a href="http://{title_permalink=" title="{course_blurb}">{title} »</a></li>

So, the generated URI will be something like:

/web-developer-training/course-details/php-developer-I

where php-developer-I is the URL title for the entry

This all works fine, but I also want that page to display the list of other courses in the sidebar. This now doesn’t work at it seems that content is limited to the single entry from the channel - so a list item for the selected course is shown but not any of the others.

Is there a wat to achieve what I want - i.e. a listing of all course titles, plus specific details for a single course, on the same page?

Thanks,

Nick

If you are using Categories to organize the courses, you can display an entry and list other entries in the same category.

In addition to the docs, Mike Boyink has a great screencast about categories.

Hope that helps.

Hi,

Thanks for that.

Yup, I am using categories but the problem is that I want the course listings to cover all categories, not just the courses from a particular category.

I’ll checkout Mike’s screencast anyway - thanks for that.

I’ve kind of kludged it for the moment by creating a template for each course. All each template does is to define a variable that represents the course’s url_title and then it embeds the main detail page template, passes the variable through and uses it to filter the channel entries. I can then use an unfiltered loop in the margin area to display titles of all courses.

Got to be a nicer way of doing it though…

Cheers,

Nick

Hey Nick,

Can you show me the code you are using to call the categories for the sidebar?

If you are not already doing so, add dynamic=“no” to the channel entries tag. That will make the tag pair ignore the url and show all categories.

Please let me know if this helps.

Cheers,

Hi Shane,

Sure here’s the code (or a snippet anyway):

<h5>PHP Courses</h5>
<p><ul><br />
  {exp:channel:entries channel="training_courses" search:course_category="php" orderby="course_sequence" sort="asc" }<br />
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=%27web-developer-training/course-details%27}">{title} »</a></li><br />
  {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
</ul>

There are then additional h5 & ul/li loops for other course categories.

Cheers,

Nick

try adding dynamic=“no”

Hey Nick,

Exactley. Phil is echoing what I mentioned above. Can you add that and see what happens?

Cheers,

Sure, will try now…

Yup, that works perfectly 😊

Thanks folks !

Hey Nick,

Glad to hear it!!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,