Thread: Limit category to show only 5 sub-categories

At the moment on our home page we show all the categories with subcategories listed.

However we only want to show the first 5 subcategories for each parent category.

C#/VB.NET Code:

 <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when test="count(/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId]) = 0">
                                          <a href="{aspdnsf:EntityLink(EntityID, SEName, 'c', 0, '')}">List All Products</a>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                                          <xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId]">
                                            <a href="{aspdnsf:EntityLink(EntityID, SEName, 'c', 0, '')}">
                                              <xsl:value-of select="Name" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
                                            </a>
                                            <br />
                                          </xsl:for-each>
                                        </xsl:otherwise>
                                      </xsl:choose> 


I could not see how to get it to work.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance.

Originally Posted by e-tradecounter

At the moment on our home page we show all the categories with subcategories listed.

However we only want to show the first 5 subcategories for each parent category.

C#/VB.NET Code:

 <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when test="count(/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId]) = 0">
                                          <a href="{aspdnsf:EntityLink(EntityID, SEName, 'c', 0, '')}">List All Products</a>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                                          <xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId]">
                                            <a href="{aspdnsf:EntityLink(EntityID, SEName, 'c', 0, '')}">
                                              <xsl:value-of select="Name" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
                                            </a>
                                            <br />
                                          </xsl:for-each>
                                        </xsl:otherwise>
                                      </xsl:choose> 


I could not see how to get it to work.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance.

I haven't tried it, but something like this should work :-

C#/VB.NET Code:

<xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId][position() &lt; 6]"> 


TTFN

BFG

Thanks BFG
Worked like a charm.

for some reason it doesn't pull the categories in the correct order.
We have set the order we want the categories in however they are not displayed in that order.

they are not even displayed in order of category id. Is there anyway we can force the categories to display in a set order?

Ideally we want to set our poplar categories our self by numbering them 1-5 respectably and all others we would number as say 9.

C#/VB.NET Code:

<xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/*[$scName]/descendant::Entity[ParentEntityID=$subCategoryId][position() &lt; 5]"> 


could we change this so we know it will pull all with an order number say under 6? and then display them in the correct order.

Many thanks in advance!

Not to worry we got it all fixed. Turns out it was to do with the cashe.

Thanks again BFG.