Thread: 9.0 left catagory

were can you edit the look of the left catagori nav that

<aspdnsf:EntityControl ID="ctrlEntityCategory" runat="server" Header="<%$ Tokens:StringResource, AppConfig.CategoryPromptPlural %>"
EntityType="Category" MaxMenuSize="<%$ Tokens:AppConfigUSInt, MaxMenuSize %>" />

creates

we are trying to get rid of the ">>" on the sub menu

anyone know where this is?

i could use an answer to this as well.

Its located in the /Web/App_Templates/Skin_1/XmlPackages/ folder.

The file you'll need to edit is rev.categories.xml.config.

The line responsible for those marks is:

HTML Code:

<span class="catMark">&gt;&gt;</span>&#160;

we already tried that and it didnt work

Oops! My bad. In v9.0 the menus are handled via controls, not XML packages.

If you go into your template.master file, then find and change this line:

<aspdnsf:EntityControl ID="ctrlEntityCategory" runat="server" Header="<%$ Tokens:StringResource, AppConfig.CategoryPromptPlural %>"
EntityType="Category" MaxMenuSize="<%$ Tokens:AppConfigUSInt, MaxMenuSize %>" />

with the following in red:

<aspdnsf:EntityControl ID="ctrlEntityCategory" runat="server" Header="<%$ Tokens:StringResource, AppConfig.CategoryPromptPlural %>"
EntityType="Category" Bullet=" " MaxMenuSize="<%$ Tokens:AppConfigUSInt, MaxMenuSize %>" />

That should do the trick! You can also replace the spaces with another character if you wish.

that makes it easy, is there any way to filter these? so on different masterpages we could show only categories that apply to that department?

Books
xxx
xxxx

etc.

Since the new control has hard coded HTML in it, we cannot use it in most cases. Here is what we did instead - this is just for your reference, it's a working example but could be improved certainly.

1. Add a tag to template.master in place of the aspdnsf:EntityControl tags that output these new menu controls:

Code:

<asp:Literal ID="leftNavCat" runat="server" Text="<%$ Tokens:XMLPACKAGE, vibe.categories.xml.config%>" />

You can change the name of the xmlpackage or ID, this is just for reference.

Then make sure you have the following xmlpackage in your XmlPackages folder.

NOTE: this xmlpackage still works for parent level menus, but because a lot of the v9 XMLPackage System / Runtime information is now missing or changed, some of these tests simply fail because that data is not there anymore
I'm hoping that will be changed because there was some useful data there that made developing xmlpackages on the fly very easy. For example, /root/System/PageName no longer shows the actual underlying file name like showcategory.aspx, but instead it shows c-1-test-cat.aspx, which is already available in several other places.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
<package version="2.1" displayname="Categories" debug="false" includeentityhelper="true">
    <PackageTransform>
        <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:aspdnsf="urn:aspdnsf" exclude-result-prefixes="aspdnsf">
            <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:param name="CategoryID">
                <xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:when test="/root/System/PageName = 'showmanufacturer.aspx' or /root/System/PageName = 'showsection.aspx' or /root/System/PageName = 'showdistributor.aspx' or /root/System/PageName = 'showvector.aspx' or /root/System/PageName = 'showgenre.aspx'">0</xsl:when>
                    <xsl:when test="/root/System/PageName = 'showcategory.aspx' and boolean(/root/QueryString/categoryid)">
                        <xsl:value-of select="/root/QueryString/categoryid"/>
                    </xsl:when>
                    <xsl:when test="(/root/System/PageName = 'showcategory.aspx' or /root/System/PageName = 'showproduct.aspx') and boolean(/root/Cookies/lastviewedentityinstanceid) and /root/Cookies/lastviewedentityname = 'Category'">
                        <xsl:value-of select="/root/Cookies/lastviewedentityinstanceid"/>
                    </xsl:when>
                    <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
            </xsl:param>

            <xsl:param name="AncestorID">
                <xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/Category//Entity[EntityID = $CategoryID]">
                    <xsl:value-of select="ancestor::*/EntityID"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:param>

            <xsl:param name="ParentID">
                <xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/Category//Entity[EntityID = $CategoryID]">
                    <xsl:value-of select="parent::*/EntityID"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:param>


            <xsl:template match="/">
                <h3>Browse By Category</h3>
                <ul>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="/root/EntityHelpers/Category/Entity" />
                </ul>
            </xsl:template>

			<xsl:template match="Entity">
                <xsl:param name="eName" select="aspdnsf:GetMLValue(Name)" />


                <li>
                    <a href="{concat('c-',EntityID,'-',SEName,'.aspx')}">
                        <xsl:if test="EntityID = $CategoryID or descendant::Entity/EntityID = $CategoryID">
                            <xsl:attribute name="class"><![CDATA[active]]></xsl:attribute>
                        </xsl:if>
                        <xsl:value-of select="$eName"/>
                    </a>


                    <xsl:if test="count(child::Entity)&gt;0 and (EntityID = $CategoryID or descendant::Entity/EntityID = $CategoryID)">
                        <ul>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="Entity" />
                        </ul>
                    </xsl:if>
                </li>
            </xsl:template>

        </xsl:stylesheet>
    </PackageTransform>
</package>

Hi,

My problem kind of relates to what is being discussed here.

We have one product category which is basically a "services" page that does not have any products but describes the additional services offered and provides a quote request form for the customers to complete and submit. This page was created as a stand-alone page which uses the same master page.

Where can I edit left category box to add a static link to this page?

Thanks!