Pulling Categories

You can use Velocity code to pull lists of Categories in several ways:

Pulling Top-Level Categories for a Category Field

Consider a News Content Type with a Category field named “News Type” and Velocity variable name of “newsType”:

The following Velocity code displays a list of news items, and gives information about each of the Categories assigned to the news item:

#foreach($news in $dotcontent.pull( "+contentType:News", 10, "modDate desc" ))
    <h2>$velocityCount. $!{news.title}</h2>
    <ul>
    #foreach($cat in $news.topic)
        <li><b>Category Name:</b> $!{cat.categoryName}</li>
        <ul>
            <li><i>Category Key:</i> $!{cat.key}</li>
            <li><i>Velocity Variable Name:</i> $!{cat.categoryVelocityVarName}</li>
        </ul>
    #end
    </ul>
#end

Pulling Child Categories

The following Velocity code pulls all child categories two levels deep, given a top-level Category key. Note that child categories are pulled from the Category inode, since the Category key is optional (and thus may not exist).

#set($categorykey = "topic")

#set($topCategory = $categories.getCategoryByKey( $!{categorykey} ))

<h2>Category: $!{topCategory.categoryName}</h2>

<ul>
    <li><b>Key:</b> $!{categorykey}</li>
    <li><b>Velocity Var:</b> $!{topCategory.categoryVelocityVarName}</li>
    <li><b>Children:</b></li>
    <ul>
    #foreach($cat in $categories.getChildrenCategoriesByKey("$!{categorykey}"))
        <li>$velocityCount. $!{cat.categoryName}</h2>
        <ul>
            <li><b>Key:</b> $!{cat.key}</li>
            <li><b>Velocity Var:</b> $!{cat.categoryVelocityVarName}</li>
            <li><b>Children:</b></li>
            <ul>
            #foreach($child in $categories.getChildrenCategories("$!{cat.inode}"))
                <li>$!{child.categoryName} ($!{child.categoryKey})</li>
            #end
            </ul>
        </ul>
    #end
    </ul>
</ul>