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Andy Kelly

Posted: 03 February 2012 04:16 PM

Forgive my rushing into this question, but I’ve written this post several times and it keeps getting deleted when clicking submit.

Great plug-in, thanks for the efforts.

I desperately need to sort my entries not on date or title, but on a custom field. Will this ever be possible?
I’ve tried working around things by omitting the entries loop, and making a channel:entries call in the child_categories loop. But it doesn’t seem possible to pass child_category_id to the category parameter.

Any hints?

Andy

Laisvunas

Posted: 04 February 2012 05:36 AM

# 1

Developer

I’ve tried working around things by omitting the entries loop, and making a channel:entries call in the child_categories loop. But it doesn’t seem possible to pass child_category_id to the category parameter.

This is possible, just add parameter


parse="inward"

to exp:child_categories tag.

Andy Kelly

Posted: 06 February 2012 08:23 AM

# 2

Oh, very excellent!

Thanks so much, for your quick reply and this plug-in.

Andy

Austmel

Posted: 27 February 2012 07:08 PM

# 3

Hi,

I have the same issue and can’t work out what i need to change in my code to sort by a low reorder custom field. If i put my channel entries call outside the {entries_start} tag i do not get any results.

Here is my code

{exp:child_categories channel="products" parent="21" child_categories_sort_by="name" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" entries_sort_by="title" entries_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="no" entries_limit="none" parse="inward"}
{parent_category_start}
{if '{parent_category_id}' =="21"}
<p><h5>{parent_category_name}</h5></p>
{/if}
{parent_category_end}

{child_category_start}
{if '{child_category_id}' =="60"}
<h4>{child_category_name}</h4>
{/if}
{child_category_end}

{entries_wrapper_top_start}{entries_wrapper_top_end}
{entries_start}

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="60" entry_id="{entry_id}" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc"}
{sn_product_summary_simple}
{/exp:channel:entries}

{entries_end}
{entries_wrapper_bottom_start}{entries_wrapper_bottom_end}
{/exp:child_categories} 

Any help would be appreciated.

cheers,

Ben.

Laisvunas

Posted: 28 February 2012 05:25 AM

# 4

Developer

Hi,

If you need to display several entries using exp:channel:entries tag, then why you added


entry_id="{entry_id}"

parameter?

Austmel

Posted: 28 February 2012 05:45 PM

# 5

Hi,

If i remove


entry_id="{entry_id}"

then i get multiple identical entry results. When i use


entry_id="{entry_id}"

i get 1 set of unique entry results.

Ben.

Laisvunas

Posted: 29 February 2012 11:28 AM

# 6

Developer

Hi,

Instead of using


entry_id="{entry_id}"

Try this:

{exp:child_categories channel="products" parent="21" child_categories_sort_by="name" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" entries_sort_by="title" entries_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="no" entries_limit="none" parse="inward"}
{parent_category_start}
{if '{parent_category_id}' =="21"}
<p><h5>{parent_category_name}</h5></p>
{/if}
{parent_category_end}

{child_category_start}
{if '{child_category_id}' =="60"}
<h4>{child_category_name}</h4>
{/if}
{child_category_end}

{entries_wrapper_top_start}{entries_wrapper_top_end}
{entries_start}

{if "{child_categories_entry_count}" == "1"}
{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="{child_category_id}" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc" limit="10"}
{sn_product_summary_simple}
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

{entries_end}
{entries_wrapper_bottom_start}{entries_wrapper_bottom_end}
{/exp:child_categories} 

Austmel

Posted: 29 February 2012 05:45 PM

# 7

Hi,

That code did not work either i got 3 identical entries but with incorrect titles on them.

Before my code i am using a conditional


{if:elseif '{segment_3}' == "steam_class_6"}

I’m not sure if that is causing an issue?

thanks again for your help in trying to get to the bottom of this i really appreciate your time.

Ben.

Laisvunas

Posted: 01 March 2012 06:34 AM

# 8

Developer

Hi,

Which part of the code outputs wrong results?

Is it this part of the code or some other?

{entries_start}

{if "{child_categories_entry_count}" == "1"}
{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="{child_category_id}" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc" limit="10"}
{sn_product_summary_simple}
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

{entries_end} 

If it is this part of the code, then does this code output what you expect?

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="60" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc" limit="10"}
{sn_product_summary_simple}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

Austmel

Posted: 01 March 2012 06:46 PM

# 9

Hi,

Using your suggested code

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="60" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc" limit="10"}
{sn_product_summary_simple}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

Displayed is the correct entries in the correct order but the title for each entry is not correct and i get the entries duplicated with each duplicated set of entries showing a different incorrect title. 2 of the incorrect titles are from a different category.

This is the result:

Category 2 title

Entry 1 - incorrect title
Entry 2 - incorrect title
Entry 3 - incorrect title
Entry 4 - incorrect title
Entry 5 - incorrect title

Entry 1 - different incorrect title
Entry 2 - different incorrect title
Entry 3 - different incorrect title
Entry 4 - different incorrect title
Entry 5 - different incorrect title

Category 3 title

Entry 1 - another different incorrect title
Entry 2 - another different incorrect title
Entry 3 - another different incorrect title
Entry 4 - another different incorrect title
Entry 5 - another different incorrect title

——————————————————————————————————————-

My categories are set like this:
Category 1
——-Category 2 - Parent with ID 21
————-Category 3 - Child with ID 60

The results should show

Title Category 2
Title category 3
Entry 1
Entry 2
Entry 3
Entry 4
Entry 5

With entries ordered by low reorder field.

Any other ideas?

cheers,

Ben.

Austmel

Posted: 01 March 2012 06:53 PM

# 10

If i remove the


parse="inward"

parameter i get the same set of incorrect result but the titles of each entry is displayed correctly.

Laisvunas

Posted: 02 March 2012 05:28 AM

# 11

Developer

My categories are set like this:
Category 1
——-Category 2 - Parent with ID 21
————-Category 3 - Child with ID 60

The results should show

Title Category 2
Title category 3
Entry 1
Entry 2
Entry 3
Entry 4
Entry 5

With entries ordered by low reorder field.

Your code should be like this:

{exp:child_categories parent="21" child_categories_sort_by="name" child_categories_sort_direction="asc"   show_empty="no" parse="inward"}

{parent_category_start}
<h1>{parent_category_name}</h1>
{parent_category_end}

{child_category_start}
<h2>{child_category_name}</h2>
{exp:channel:entries channel="products" category="{child_category_id}" dynamic="no" orderby="product_order" sort="asc" limit="10"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p>{sn_product_summary_simple}</p>
{/exp:channel:entries}
{child_category_end}

{/exp:child_categories} 