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#1 2008-02-14 02:28:15
- masa
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Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
Hi,
I have two major parent categories A and B and was wondering whether there is a way to list only the children of A under the Category 1 drop menu and respectively the children of B under the Category 2 menu in the Write tab?
The reason is, I’ve noticed users getting confused when they see identical listings in both dropdown menus when I’d rather want them to see this:
Category 1:
A- 1
- 2
- 3
Category 2:
B- 4
- 5
- 6
I wouldn’t be afraid to modify the txp core, if this was at all possible.
Martin
Last edited by masa (2008-02-14 02:37:00)
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#2 2008-02-16 01:29:23
- masa
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
No response, so I assume the answer is no (?!)
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
The answer is almost always yes. If not by using a TXP core function, then by using an existing plugin (check textpattern.org, quite a few category plugins there) or by writing your own plugin.
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
I think the question Masa is asking is not can category 1 and category 2 lists be separate when displayed on a site but can they be separate on the admin side.
This is something that I would love to be able to do as well:
When entering an article on a site of mine, category 1 is used to determine: Blog or Sidebar or Feature Article;
category 2 is used to note whether it is an Online Original, Reprint from the paper version, Video, or Podcast. (Section is used for Film, Music, Theatre, etc.)
The problem for contributors is when they click “Category 1”, they see the entire list Blog, Original, Feature, Podcast, Reprint, Sidebar, Video. Then when they click “Category 2” they see: Blog, Original, Feature, Podcast, Reprint, Sidebar, Video.
What I would like (and what I think Masa is asking) is to restrict category1 to category1 dropdown (Blog, Sidebar, Feature) and category2 to category2 dropdown (Original, Podcast, Reprint, Video).
I have yet to see a plugin that does it (yet.)
Anyone have ideas?
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
If you don’t mind changing TXP core code, edit /textpattern/include/txp_article, change line 837 (in the category_popup function) from:
$rs = getTree('root', 'article');into:
$rs = getTree($id, 'article');If you then create two parent categories, named: ‘category-1’ and ‘category-2’, each having child categories, you’ll get what you want.
It’s possible to do this in a plugin as well by using javascript to replace both select fields.
Last edited by ruud (2008-02-16 14:00:27)
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#6 2008-02-16 14:06:40
- masa
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
amordecosmos wrote:
What I would like (and what I think Masa is asking) is to restrict category1 to category1 dropdown (Blog, Sidebar, Feature) and category2 to category2 dropdown (Original, Podcast, Reprint, Video).
Thanks amordecosmos for clarifying my explanation!
Yes, that’s exactly what I had in mind!
And thanks Ruud, I’ll try this tonight – looks easy enough.
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#7 2008-02-16 16:25:23
- masa
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
Ruud, thank you soooo much!
This works extremely well, even with grandchildren categories. The only catch was, I needed to rename my existing parent categories to ‘category-1’ and ‘category-2’ for the drop-down menu to show up.
Thanks again, this will make an enormous difference for the enduser!
Cheers Martin
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
I just did it. It is amazing!
Can we have this in core? This is the way I always thought it should have worked!
(And thanks.)
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amordecosmos wrote:
I just did it. It is amazing!
Can we have this in core? This is the way I always thought it should have worked!
(And thanks.)
that wouldn’t make any sense to be in core. that means you’d only be allowed to have 2 parent categories and they’d have to be named category-1 and category-2.
Last edited by iblastoff (2008-02-17 18:41:44)
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#10 2008-02-17 19:23:29
- masa
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
iblastoff wrote:
that wouldn’t make any sense to be in core. that means you’d only be allowed to have 2 parent categories and they’d have to be named category-1 and category-2.
I agree it’s not ideal.
However your category title can be anything you prefer and since these two parent categories would only be used to separate child categories to show up under the Category 1 or Category 2 drop menus, but not to actually tag any articles with, I don’t think this would be a big issue.
Perhaps what really should be incorporated in the core is a single category listing allowing for multiple selections.
I know we have rss_unlimited_categories, but that leaves the existing Category 1 and Category 2 drop menus visible and hence only adds to the users’ confusion.
Last edited by masa (2008-02-17 19:25:15)
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Re: Showing different category listings for Category 1 vs Category 2 menu
masa, I think ied_hide_in_admin lets you hide categories.
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yah what jm said. whenever i use rss_unlimited_categories, i just throw on ied_hide_in_admin and voila (actually i use ied_hide_in_admin all of the time). its just a shame the write page isn’t more customizable without some ‘cheap’ javascript hiding.
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