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dave_81
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Aug 12, 2008, 8:29 AM
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Hello
Im wondering if you can help?
I want te be able to add a featured category on my home page, so basically I could either select a new page each week to be featured on my home page?
I can see you can do this for the articles, however i am using single page category content pages rather than article content pages.
What would be the process for doing this?
Many thanks
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Jake
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Aug 13, 2008, 11:49 AM
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Hi dave_81,
Thanks for posting!
To set this up, you'll first want to create a new checkbox field by clicking the "edit table & fields" link for db_category under Admin -> Database Editor. Use "featured" for its name; you can use a label like "Featured Category". The default settings for this field should be fine.
The next step is to create a template for displaying your category content, which includes a templateIf to restrict the display of categories to only ones that have the "Featured" checkbox enabled. Here's some example code for this:
<!-- templateIf: $category.featured$ eq "Yes" -->
$category.content$
<!-- /templateIf -->
Call this template "featuredCategory.html".
Now you need to create a new "category menu" publishing rule, which will be used to control the display of your category content. Give this rule a placeholder set name of "featuredCategory", and choose the custom template we created in the previous step. This should be set to publish "One File" - use a filename of "include_featuredCategory". The other settings should be fine.
Finally, on your globalIndex.html template you need to add this line of code where you'd like your content to appear:
<!--#include virtual="$published.featuredCategory.webpath$" -->
That should be it! Note that if you have more than one category with this checkbox enabled, they'll both be displayed. There isn't a way around this, so you'll want to be careful when changing the featured category content on your site. 
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