possible to show only specific category at page "home"?

[Anni]

hi everyone,

for the shop I'm working on I only want to display products of a specific (sub-)category on the shop home. is it possible to do that without hard-coding the category id into the corresponding jsp?

thanks in advance,
anni

[julie]

Hi Anni,

Another alternative you have is to call the getCats() method of com.konakart.al.CategoryMgr and to traverse the hierarchical tree to attempt to match a name.

Regards,

Julie

[Anni]

hi julie,

thanks for the reply  that's probably just what I need.

regards,

anni

[Anni]

hi,

is there a method getName() for categories?

regards,
anni

[Anni]

oh, nevermind, I just found it in another jsp.

but how do I get the subcategories once I'm in a certain category??

regards,
anni

[julie]

Hi Anni,

Please look at the Javadoc http://www.konakart.com/javadoc/server/ . You'll see that there is a getChildren() method.

Regards,

Julie

[Anni]

hi julie,

thanks for the link and sorry for being a nuisance. but I didn't know where to find the javadoc before.

thanks again,
anni

[Brian]

The javadoc is also provided in the download kits - see webapps/javadoc - Brian

[Anni]

ok, thanks for the info.

I've seen that there is a method called fetchProductsPerCategory(cat) as part of the products manager. how can I use this? as it's just returning an integer I can't assign it to the prodArray.

or is there a way to do it like this:

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<bean:define id="prodArray" name="prodMgr" property="newProducts"/>

[julie]

Hi Anni,

It sets the currentProducts attribute of the ProductManager so you can get them by calling getCurrentProducts().

[Anni]

hi julie,

is this also possible if I want to specify the category myself? because in my case, there is no category selected, yet.

regards,
anni