how to list sibling-categories?

Hi Michael,

For the subsubcategory you would have to set a variable with its parent category, which in this case would be a subcategory.

Then, you would list all the entries inside that subcategory, eventually marking the current one in context, either assigning it a class or making it bold.

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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Hi Mihai,

thank you for your fast reply!

Could you please give me a example on how to get the name of the parent category? I'm still a little bit lost in the MT-Tag language.
All I find is how to loop through all categories and list them up. I don't know how to say "get Parent Category of the current Category"

Assuming that i have that parent category variable, I would do the following:

<ul>
 <mt:Categories category="parent category">
  <li>
   <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a>
  </li>
 </mt:Categories>
</ul>

is that the right way to do? (regardless of marking the current subcategory)

Thank you very much!

greets,
Michael

Hi Michael,

You are welcome!

Here are some hints from the documentation:
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/setvarblock.html
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/hasparentcategory.html
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/parentcategory.html

You could get the parent category of the current category in context using:
<mt:ParentCategory><mt:CategoryLabel></mt:ParentCategory>

Setting it as a variable could be done using:
<mt:HasParentCategory><mt:SetVarBlock name="parent_category"><mt:ParentCategory><mt:CategoryLabel></mt:ParentCategory></mt:SetVarBlock></mt:HasParentCategory>
(the above could work also without the mt:HasParentCategory)

Invoking the parent category works like this:
<mt:Categories category="$parent_category">

Of course, you would have to play a bit with this coding until you get what you wanted.

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

Thank you very much, again!

When I try your code I get 2 error messages.
1. MTHasParentCategory has to be within a category-context

if I wrap the <mt:HasParentCategory> with <mt:Categories>

<mt:Categories>

<mt:HasParentCategory>...</mt:HasParentCategory>

</mt:Categories>

the lines:

<ul>

 <mt:Categories category="$parent_category">

  <li><a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a></li>

 </mt:Categories>

</ul>

produce the other error:
2. Can't call method "entry_based" on an undefined value

what does that mean?

Maybe it's important to know, that this submenu is placed within a widget, that is included in the footer-widget, which is placed within the Entry-list archive template (don't know the exact english translation for this)

I hope I don't bother you to much! Thank you again for your help!

greets,
Michael

Of course that you have to include that coding inside a category context...

Is that widget called only fron the "Entry Listing" archive template? Also, since you are getting the 1st error, I guess that you are not publishing only categories, but also monthly archives, if not also author archives and also category monthly archives...

A link to your site would also help!

I'm still having the problem, with this "category context"

I moved the listing inside the "beta-column" (div id="beta-inner"). By the way, I'm using the "Professionelles Blog 1.0", if it's important.

here is my code:

<mt:HasParentCategory>
 <mt:SetVarBlock name="parent_category">
  <mt:ParentCategory>
   <mt:CategoryLabel>
  </mt:ParentCategory>
 </mt:SetVarBlock>
</mt:HasParentCategory>

<ul>

  <mt:SubCategories category="$parent_category">

   <li>

    <a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>

   </li>

 </mt:SubCategories>

</ul>

i can wrap around <mt:categories>...</mt:categories> around the first block, but then MT goes trough all categories. I want to do this:

<mt:Go-ONLY-into-the-current-category>
 <mt:HasParentCategory>
  <mt:SetVarBlock name="parent_category">
   <mt:ParentCategory>
    <mt:CategoryLabel>
   </mt:ParentCategory>
  </mt:SetVarBlock>
 </mt:HasParentCategory>
</mt:Go-ONLY-into-the-current-category>

Which "category context" can I put around the <mt:HasParentCategory> that MT just graps the current SubSubCategory the user is in an checks if it has a parent category? Isn't there any variable, that contains the current category?

here is the link Nevermind the design, it's not mine ;-)
Thanks again!

Looks like my last post didn't show up in the thread... don't know why...

I'll repeat the post.Here we go:

I moved the code from the widget directly into the Entry listing archive template but I still have the problem with the "category context".

here ist my code:

<mt:HasParentCategory>
 <mt:SetVarBlock name="parent_category">
  <mt:ParentCategory>
   <mt:CategoryLabel>
  </mt:ParentCategory>
 </mt:SetVarBlock>
</mt:HasParentCategory>

<mt:SubCategories category="&parent_category">

    <li><a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a></li>

</mt:SubCategories>

what tag can I wrap around the MTHasParentCategories, that its still within a category context and only checks the current category the user is in? Isn't there any variable, that stores the current category the user is in?

for Example, If i hard code

<mt:categories category="activities">

Thank you again! I'm somehow getting desperate... :-(

Sorry for the double post.

here is the link
nevermind the design...it's not from me ;-)

greets,
Michael

here is the link, sorry for double post

http://www2.fremde-werden-freunde.de/

greets,
Michael