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4blacksheep
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Mar 10, 2008, 1:32 PM
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Hello,
What would be the placeholder for a category with sub-cats?
I want to say:
If the Category has Sub-categories then....
$category.depth$ doesn't do the trick because it only works when I am in the Sub-cat and not when I am in Depth 0.
Thanks in advance,
Roni
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Jake
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Mar 10, 2008, 3:29 PM
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Hi Roni,
I don't think there are any placeholders that you could use for this - what exactly were you trying to set up? There might be another way to get it going. 
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4blacksheep
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Mar 10, 2008, 8:06 PM
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I'll try to explain.
Not all categories have sub-categories. some do and some in the future will have, so it's important for me to keep the menu flexible and easy to use.
I've been working on this all day and couldn't figure it out.
I want the article titles to show under the category name. it works fine in the categories without sub-categories and in the sub-categories.
but in the categories with sub-categories it lists the article titles again under level 0 and I don't know how to get rid of those titles.
Let me know if you need more explanations.
Thanks for your help,
Roni
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Mar 11, 2008, 1:01 PM
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Hi Roni,
How are you bringing in the articles under the category names right now? Do you have a publishing rule set up to create these lists? What template(s) are you working with?
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4blacksheep
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Mar 11, 2008, 2:32 PM
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using Headlines.
I created a new publish rule using a template that has only the article title in it.
I bring the headlines in the menu under the category name.
<li> <a href="$published.categoryIndex.url$">$category.name$</a></li>
<li >
<!--#include virtual="/artman2/publish/$category.filename$/categoryHeadlines.shtml" -->
</li>
I am open to any other way to set this up.
Roni
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Mar 12, 2008, 1:16 PM
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Hi Roni,
What are the conditions you want to use to bring the headlines in? Just when an article has sub-categories? Is this because you want to avoid loading headlines on single page content categories, or something else?
Sorry for all of the questions, I'm just trying to get a better idea of what you need.
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4blacksheep
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Mar 12, 2008, 1:55 PM
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when a category has sub-categories I don't want the headlines of level 0 to appear and I want it to have a "selected" style.
so it will look something like this:
level0 selected
level1
headlines
level1
headlines
level0
level0
level0
Thanks for your help,
Roni
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Hi Roni,
But when your 0-level category doesn't have subcategories, you want to display headlines for it? I'm a bit confused because in that example only the subcategories are loading headlines in, which means that you could use a templateIf based off of $category.depth$ > "0". Would that work?
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4blacksheep
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Mar 14, 2008, 10:48 AM
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I tried that before and it didn't work but I tried using $category.depth$ > "0" again and it works now the way I want it to.
almost..
I only have one problem now, I can't get level0 with subcategories to have the "selected" style. I really need it because otherwise it's confusing to know where the sub-categories belong to.
here is the code that I am using:
<ul id="sidemenu"><!-- templateInsert : $categoryList$ -->
<!-- templatecell : categoryRow -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.depth$ == "0" -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.isSelected$ != '1' -->
<li class="catMenu-0"><a href="$published.categoryIndex.url$">$category.name$</a></li>
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.isSelected$ == '1' -->
<li class="catMenu-0_selected"> <a href="$published.categoryIndex.url$">$category.name$</a></li>
<li >
<!--#include virtual="/artman2/publish/$category.filename$/categoryHeadlines.shtml" -->
</li>
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.depth$ > "0" -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.depth$ == "0" -->
<li class="catMenu-0_selected"> <a href="$published.categoryIndex.url$">$category.name$</a></li>
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- templateIf: $category.depth$ == "1" -->
<li class="catMenu-1_selected"> <a href="$published.categoryIndex.url$">$category.name$</a></li>
<li>
<!--#include virtual="/artman2/publish/$category.filename$/categoryHeadlines.shtml" -->
</li>
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- /templateIf -->
<!-- /templatecell : categoryRow -->
</ul>
to answer your question, when level0 does not have sub-categories I want it to show the headlines when selected.
Thanks!
Roni
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Mar 17, 2008, 3:15 PM
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Hi Roni,
I spent some time looking into this and I don't think there's a way to assigned the selected style to a parent-level category when its subcategory is actually the selected category. There aren't any placeholders available for assessing the relationship between parent and sub categories, which is what makes this so difficult.
I'm going to keep this post in the back of my mind to see if any solutions present themselves, but I'm reasonably certain that there won't be any way to set this up.
Let us know if you have any other questions.
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Mar 18, 2008, 9:30 AM
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seems like a very basic thing to show the relationship between the parent level and its subcategories.
Thanks for looking into it.
Roni
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