Display additional categories

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

Hello,

we have   <inp2:CategoryPath separator="&gt;" render_as="category_path_element"/>    to display primary category. Can we display a 2nd category if any?

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[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

Hi Phil,

you can use the same tag as the one used in modify_link.tpl file, modified as follow :

<inp2:m_DefineElement name="category">
  <inp2:m_Param name="full_path"/>
</inp2:m_DefineElement>

<inp2:l_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/>

p.

2010/10/14 Phil -- wbtc.fr -- <ph...@wbtc.fr>

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

thanks for answering, it works well in link listing, but doesn't work when I change to "n" prefix and use it, at the same place, in news.

Any idea?

[Dmitry Andrejev]

Hi Phil,

It should work just fine since tag is Category Item wide and this code loads up all Additional categories in MoreCategories field:

// set item's additional categories to virtual field (used in editing)

$item_categories = $this->getItemCategories($object->GetDBField('ResourceId'));

$object->SetDBField('MoreCategories', $item_categories ? '|'.implode('|', $item_categories).'|' : '');

in OnAfterItemLoad for all Category Items.

What['s your exact code and where you are using the tag - list or item template (details page).

DA

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[Alexander Obuhovich]

Really tag <inp2:n_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/> doesn't work, when used on article detail page?

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[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

I use this tag in my_account/my_items of each module.

I've copy/pasted the code, works with l, doesn't with n, in corresponding categories (and debug error message doesn't show any red error, I can't debug alone this time :)

2010/10/14 Alexander Obuhovich <aik....@gmail.com>

[Dmitry Andrejev]

Phil,

Please post your whole code from my_items here.

DA

[Alexander Obuhovich]

When used from inside <inp2:m_DefineElement tag, used in list prefix should be omitted, like this:

<inp2:PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/>

<inp2:n_ replaced with <inp2:

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

I tried to remove the tag, because I knew it's not needed in a define element, but in this case it doesn't work (and in advanced theme it's coded with prefix, while it's in a define).

Dmitry, here is the code:

<inp2:m_DefineElement name="my_link_element">
[...]

          <inp2:m_DefineElement name="category">
                      <inp2:m_Param name="full_path"/>
          </inp2:m_DefineElement>

                    <inp2:m_phrase name="lu_fld_PrimaryCategory"/>: <strong><inp2:l_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/></strong><br />
[...]
</inp2:m_DefineElement>

and it's called like this:

 <inp2:m_RenderElement design="content_box" data_exists="1" block_no_data="no_links">
[...]
     <inp2:l_InitList list_name="my_links" types="my_items" parent_cat_id="0" recursive="1"/>
     <inp2:m_include template="in-link/elements/links.elm"/>
     <inp2:l_ListLinks list_name="my_links" render_as="my_link_element" direction="H"/>
[...]
  </inp2:m_RenderElement>

p

2010/10/14 Alexander Obuhovich <aik....@gmail.com>

[Alexander Obuhovich]

I strongly recommend not to use prefix in DefineElement used for list element printing. Maybe that article of your don't have any additional categories and that's why they are not displayed?

[Dmitry Andrejev]

Phil,

1. There is no <inp2:l_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/> tag within <inp2:m_DefineElement name="my_link_element"> element - you added it.

2. When you added it - you didn't pay attention that other tags do NOT have a Prefix specified since it's NOT needed because the whole List Object is setup by <inp2:l_ListLinks list_name="my_links" render_as="my_link_element" direction="H"/> which already has "l" Prefix which will be passed down the road.

In other words, you haven't correctly using <inp2:l_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/> tag for Links too :)

DA.

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

1. yes I added it

2. in in-link, it DOESN'T work if I remove the prefix (error in debug + page rendering stopped), but works perfectly using it :-)

3. for in-news, the matter is not an empty result, but an error in debug. And it doesn't work also without prefix

2010/10/14 Dmitry Andrejev <dand...@gmail.com>

[Dmitry Andrejev]

Phil,

What's the error?

Any reason you are not putting all this info right away in your question so we have find it hard way? :)

DA.

[Phil -- wbtc.fr --]

Dmitry,

may you'll find it funny, I was about to copy here the debug output, but

<inp2:l_PrintMoreCategories render_as="category" field="MoreCategories"/>

 WORKS fine and display my additionnal categories, while it doesn't work (debug show up and page doesn't finish to load) if I remove the prefix "l_"

Maybe I use it "not correctly", but I use it the way it works ;-)