Display specific category listing

[lesliekirk]

I'm not sure if this can be done with the ReadyTheme or if I'll need to move this question to Store Morph. I would like to display a specific category's sub categories on the SFNT screen. After looking at the ReadyTheme's Navigation Sets - it doesn't look like it could dynamically pull in the specific category's sub-cats. In the past I've pulled in a specific category's products to the SFNT using Toolkit, I suppose I can tweak up something like that, but this would again be one of those Toolkit snippets that I would like to try and use native code for.

Leslie

[Brennan]

Re: Display specific category listing

Hey Leslie -


There is nothing in readythemes to allow you to do what you're looking for.


However now that you can use mvt:do in the template language you can do something like this:

<mvt:do name="l.result" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Category_Load_Code( 'category_code', l.settings:current_category )" />
<mvt:do name="l.result" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="CategoryList_Load_Parent( l.settings:current_category:id, l.settings:sub_categories )" />

<mvt:foreach iterator="subcat" array="l.settings:sub_categories">
    &mvt:subcat:active;
    &mvt:subcat:agrpcount;
    &mvt:subcat:code;
    &mvt:subcat:disp_order;
    &mvt:subcat:id;
    &mvt:subcat:name;
    &mvt:subcat:parent_id;
</mvt:foreach>

Here are some other toolkit functions you can do in Miva using mvt:do

http://www.miva.com/videos/articles/...ement-examples

[lesliekirk]

Re: Display specific category listing

Do I change category_code to the parent category code that I want to load the subcats of?

[lesliekirk]

Re: Display specific category listing

I'm thinking not - the code looks like it will only work on a CTGY page. I'm trying to display on the SFNT.

[lesliekirk]

Re: Display specific category listing

So this is the code that I'm working to tweak. It displays the subcats on the SFNT - the only product is it displays ALL of the 1st level subcats. I need to fine tune it to display the subcats of a specific parent cat.

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="parentcat|pccount" /><!-- check for parent cats //-->
<mvt:foreach iterator="parent_category" array="parent_categories">
<!-- check for 1st level subcats //-->
<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat|ccount|l.all_settings:parent_category:code" />
<mvt:if expr="ccount GT 0">
<mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category" array="sub_categories">
<mvt:if expr="g.Category_Code EQ l.settings:sub_category:code">
&nbsp; &mvt:sub_category:name;<br>
<mvt:else>
&nbsp;<a href="&mvt:global:sessionurl;Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PE&Category_Code=&mvta:sub_category:code;">
&mvt:sub_category:name;</a><br>
</mvt:if>


</mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>
</mvt:foreach>

I'll keep dinking around and when I get it, I'll post it for posterity.

[Brennan]

Re: Display specific category listing

Something like this should work:

<mvt:assign name="g.category_code" value="'my_cat_code'" />


<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="subcat|ccount|g.category_code" />


<mvt:if expr="ccount GT 0">
    <mvt:foreach iterator="sub_category" array="sub_categories">

         <a href="&mvt:global:sessionurl;Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PE&Category_Code=&mvta:sub_category:code;">
            &mvt:sub_category:name;</a><br>
         
    </mvt:foreach>
</mvt:if>