Thread: 'Create' vert menu only displaying subcats

Greetings,

I am building a clothing store for a client...we have multiple categories all with subcategories. I am using a hometemplate.ascx that contains the main home page with the categories horizontal menu displayed (altered menudata.xml as "Categories0". I'd like to prevent the fly-outs from occurring but I'd also like to have the navigation work where, when a category is clicked on from the hometemplate.ascx page, I'd like to have a vert. menu on the left hand side that ONLY displays the subcategories tied to the selected parent category.

HomeTemplate.ascx
Brands | Girls | Boys | etc...
I want to prevent flyouts
'Boys' category is clicked ...

template.ascx
Horizontal of parent categories remain

Vert Menu:
Boys:
-- Infants
-- Preemie
-- Toddler

Is this easy to do...and, do I need to do a crash course in XMLPackage development to do this?
TIA
-Rich

If you find the answer to this, I'd like to know as well. I tried using:
(!CATEGORY_BROWSE_BOX!)
but it put a red arrow image beside them and I couldn't find where to change that. I'd also like to have the subcategories listed under the categories when clicked. I've seen several posts about how to configure that left menu, but not many suggestions. This seems like something most people would need to configure and should be a little more intuitive. Hopefully someone will point us in the right direction.
--Angela

I don't have a problem with that so much, I just need to make sure that not ALL categories are in the vert menu, only the ones that are tied to the category in focus on the page. Hopefully that makes more sense.

Little help?

Not to be a pain, but I've paid for the product....where's the support? I can't imagine my request is impossible.

Should be rather simple...here's the code for a modified rev.categories.xml.config file that I called template.subcategories.xml.config, and I called it from the template using

Code:

(!XmlPackage Name="template.subcategories.xml.config!)

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="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:param name="CategoryID">
                <xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:when test="/root/QueryString/categoryid">
                        <xsl:value-of select="/root/QueryString/categoryid"/>
                    </xsl:when>
                    <xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
            </xsl:param>

            <xsl:template match="/">
                <xsl:element name="ul">
                    <xsl:attribute name="class">
                        <![CDATA[tame]]>
                    </xsl:attribute>

                    <xsl:for-each select="/root/EntityHelpers/Category/Entity">
                        <xsl:sort select="DisplayOrder"/>
                        <xsl:sort select="Name"/>
                        <xsl:sort select="EntityID"/>

                        <xsl:if test="(EntityID = $CategoryID) or (EntityID = $AncestorID)">

                            <xsl:for-each select="descendant::Entity[(descendant::ParentEntityID = $CategoryID) or (descendant::EntityID = $CategoryID)]">
                                <xsl:sort select="DisplayOrder"/>
                                <xsl:sort select="Name"/>
                                <xsl:sort select="EntityID"/>
                                <xsl:variable name="EntityID" select="EntityID"/>

                                <xsl:element name="li">
                                    <xsl:call-template name="Space">
                                        <xsl:with-param name="count" select="count(ancestor::*/Entity[(descendant::EntityID = $EntityID)]) - 1"/>
                                    </xsl:call-template>
                                    <xsl:element name="a">
                                        <xsl:attribute name="href">
                                            <xsl:value-of select="concat('c-',EntityID,'-',SEName,'.aspx')"/>
                                        </xsl:attribute>
                                        <xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
                                    </xsl:element>
                                </xsl:element>

                            </xsl:for-each>

                        </xsl:if>
                    </xsl:for-each>

                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:template>

            <xsl:template name="Space">
                <xsl:param name="count" select="1"/>
                <xsl:if test="$count > 0">
                    <xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:call-template name="Space">
                        <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count - 1"/>
                    </xsl:call-template>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:template>

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

Thanks for the reply, sir. So this does indeed require an XMLPackage mod, that's what I was afraid of, but thank you so much for the pseudo, very much appreciated!

Edit: Worked perfectly, thanks again!

Well, I thought I was right there....

When a visitor clicks on a category from the menu, now, only that selected category displays rather than all categories under the main parent...my fault for not clarifying. Soooo....what I guess I need is something like this: click here... where, when a physical child category is selected, all the remain categories still remain visible.

Thanks and again, I apologize for not clarifying.

-Rich

I need the same thing... to keep the subcategories visible after you click on another subcategory.

Have you discovered how to do this???

Thanks,
Harry

Hey Harry,

I haven't, seems that the menu component isn't covered much here since it's sourced from the vendor, unless you have the full source...which I do not have. My client ended up scrapping it since I just couldn't get any ideas on it.

-Rich

Thanks George for a excellent package. Only problem is that
when you drill down the categories the parent one shows also and
and when you have deep subcategories it cant drill down to the categories deeper down.

are you able to modify it so it acts exactly like the categories shown inside the grid please. it drills down nicely to any subcat u want and the rest dissapears without any parents shown.

thank you again

I know you guys aren't going to like this, but I needed the same thing and ended up making my own menus and calling those in a template for that category. That way, regardless of the subcat you're in, all the siblings still show. It's not an easy solution, but it allows you to make it look exactly how you want it to look and it isn't as hard as it seems. You only need one cat_template per cat and it works for all the sibling cats too. Hope that helps a little.