Thread: Listing subcategories

Here is a rather dumb question...how can I list all the subcategories for a single category.

For instance...if I have a category A, that has subcategories 1 - 5, I would like to list them out like so.

A

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

I would also like each subcategory name to be a link that would take me to all the products in that subcategory.

Thanks,
David

Are you trying to develop a custom list, or modify an existing xmlpackage, or something else? What version of AspDotNetStorefront are you running? Do you have source code? There are a few different ways that you could go about doing this depending on where you want to make the list available, if it has to be dynamic, and how you want to implement...

I have the latest version 8.0.1.2 I think.

I have the source code.

I just want to get the output I want...if I need to create an xmlpackage, that is cool. Personally I am most comfortable in code, but whatever is easiest.

I figured there would be something easy like call a method that takes in the parameter of the category id and it gives me back a list of subcategories that I could then deal with...no idea how stuff works under the covers.

David

Well, the simple way of putting this is to automatically expand the left nav category list by commenting out the following lines on the rev.categories.xml.config under {root}/skins/Skin_#

Code:

<xsl:if test="count(child::Entity)&gt;0 and (EntityID = $CategoryID or descendant::Entity/EntityID = $CategoryID) and count(child::Product)&gt;0"> and its ending delimiter </xsl:if>

and then changing the Unicode character from the :

Code:

<span class="catMark">&gt;&gt;</span>*

by changing the value of the highlighted item to whatever character you want, for example:

Code:

<span class="catMark">& # 6 7 8</span> (white spaces was used to avoid unicode translation)*

Great, so if I make the changes, how do I utilize the xml package on my home page template?

The template.ascx is already calling the rev.categories.xml.config; therefore, your home page is utilizing it, that is if you haven't changed the template.ascx file.

that's how i did it
http://forums.aspdotnetstorefront.co...133#post118133