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    • Smart list filter (customSearch filter ?) from a category page (category module link)

    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    On a Tiki 22 I use a category module in one of my menu to populate it with items from a specific category.

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    {module module="categories" nobox="y" decoration="0" type="trackerItem" selflink="y" hideEmpty="y" onlyChildren="y" categId="22"}


    It has a selflink meaning each menu item is a link to a wiki page with the same name as the category. (cool)

    On this page I have a plugin a customSearch plugin to display trackeritems with this category assigned.

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    {CUSTOMSEARCH(tpl="customSearch.tpl")}{list max="9"}
{filter field="tracker_id" content="2"}
{filter categories="10"}
{output template="product_homeShort_listing.tpl"}
	    {FORMAT(name="category")}{display name="tracker_field_productCategory"  format="trackerrender"}{FORMAT}
	    {FORMAT(name="name")}{display name="tracker_field_productName" format="trackerrender"}{FORMAT}
	    {FORMAT(name="brand")}{display name="tracker_field_productBrandName" format="trackerrender"}{FORMAT}
{CUSTOMSEARCH}

    For each category, each page I have to set manually the category filter 
    {filter categories="10"}

    It means I have a "lot of the same" page with only a change... the filter for the category.

    Would it be a smart way to have a single page (alias of all the categories name) getting the category (id) that was clicked for filter ?
    To pass into the url the category ID then to have it filtered on landing on the page ?

    To be complete it should also be multilingual-proof.
    Meaning; categories have a different name depending the language and we should have different destination page for each language. (IE: categorie(10):Kitchen link goes to Kitchen page. categorie(10):Cuisine link goes to Cuisine page)
    ha ha ! ?

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    Posted by Jonny Bradley posts: 126892 United Kingdom

    Hi Bernard

    Yes you can 😀

    As described here you can use defaultcat on the url to set a category filter, like:

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    Search?defaultcat~5=7

    where 5 is the parent category (as set in a an input in the form, e.g. {categories _parent="5" _style="select"}) and 7 is the category you want to show.


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Ok for this part (having the filter set on the customSearch).

    But my issue is just before that.
    From the category module that generate the menu I have a link with the category name (not the id).
    Screen Shot 2021 02 07 At 14.35.34

    And so I have one for each item.
    My idea is to have all link landing on the search page with the "Search?defaultcat~5=7" url parameter set accordingly.

    Thanks for your time Jonny.


    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    There is everything in Tiki... ?

    I missed the custom URL parameter in the module category.
    My understanding is that it allow to create a custom URL with the catId, something like:

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    {module module="categories" nobox="y" decoration="0" type="trackerItem" selflink="n" customURL="Search?defaultcat~22=%catId%" onlyChildren="y" hideEmpty="y" categId="22"}

    But... 
    %catId%
    is not working as expected and the url look like this: 
    Search?categ=%CAtid%
    ?

    I’m stuck here...

    Sidenote: If I try with 
    %name%
    the link is correct:
    Search?categ=cooktops
    And if I don’t specify a custom URL I have 
    cat10-Cooktops


    So I tried to use those results with customSearch filters on tracker_field but I couldn’t get it to work re ?



    Posted by Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist posts: 8654 France

    Thank to your comment in a different discussion I explored the plugin List way.

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    {LIST(searchable_only="0")}
{list max="100"}
{filter deepcategories="1"}
{filter type=category}
{OUTPUT()}
[ProductBrowse?defaultcat~1={display name="object_id"}|{display name="title"}]
{OUTPUT}
{LIST}


    However I hit a wall.
    My categories are built as follow:

    Products
    ->Kitchen
    ->->Ovens
    ->->Fridges
    ->Salon
    ->->Tv Screens
    ->House
    ->->Washing machine

    I want to display the last child only (Ovens, Fridges, Tv Screens, Washing machine) and not (Kitchen, Salon, House)
    I don’t see a child child option...