Comments for Primary Category templates only?

Primary Category templates only?

2008-12-04T06:36:04Z

I’m trying to create an archive mapping but can’t seem to find out how to get it so that it will only create a file for that category if it’s a primary category and not a sub-category.

For example, I have this category list:

Category 1 - north - south Category 2 - west - north Category 3 - south

I want to create this file: http://www.mysite.com/category1/index.php but it also creates: http://www.mysite.com/north/index.php

Any idea how I can avoid subcategory files to be created from that template?

Comment from Carlo Laitano on 2008-12-03

2008-12-04T06:40:33Z

The category list doesn't appear the way I typed it :S. Everything listed there is a category. The ones with dashes are sub-categories.

Comment from Mike T on 2008-12-04

2008-12-04T19:14:36Z

Try wrapping the entire category archive with a HasNoParentCategory tag: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/hasnoparentcategory.html

Comment from Carlo Laitano on 2008-12-04

2008-12-04T20:23:36Z

Hmm, this work inside the template. It just outputs empty files. Thanks for the tip though, it will be usefull on other situations. I don't think I'll find a way for those subcategories to not output files :(

Comment from Carlo Laitano on 2008-12-04

2008-12-04T20:31:47Z

What I did to solve this temporarily is set the templates to dynamic publishing. This way no actual files are created for any category/subcategory and only called if needed. I would still like to solve this for static publishing though.. would prove really useful.

Comment from Mike T on 2008-12-04

2008-12-05T05:40:09Z

I don't know if you're comfortable with doing a little bit of Perl coding, but here is a possible way of doing that with a simple plugin. Based on this: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/man/MT/WeblogPublisher.html#CALLBACKS

Create a plugin that adds a callback to BuildFileFilter that checks the current category, and if it has a parent category, return false.

Comment from Mike T on 2008-12-05

2008-12-05T21:21:52Z

Give this a shot and tell me how it works for you.

Comment from Carlo Laitano on 2008-12-05

2008-12-05T21:28:43Z

Oh this seems exactly what I need. I'll update to 4.23 first and then try it out! Thanks for the link :)

Comment from Carlo Laitano on 2008-12-05

2008-12-06T06:27:27Z

I believe it works! Thanks Mike! :D