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Listing categories as checkboxes rather than dropdown list
 
cliffords
Posted: 09 October 2010 10:10 AM   [ Ignore ]
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The documentation shows two methods of showing the entry’s categories, both of which generate a drop-down menu.

Is it possible to generate a (more user-friendly) checkbox list (as on the current EE2 categories tab) - I couldn’t work out the syntax. It would also need to display the currently checked items if you were editing an existing entry.

Thanks for any help - and for a great product.

Clifford
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Rob Sanchez
Posted: 12 October 2010 07:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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This should do the trick:

{categories}
    <label><input type="checkbox" value="{category_id}" {checked} />{category_name}</label>
{/categories} 
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cliffords
Posted: 13 October 2010 01:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Great - many thanks. I need to add in name=“category[]” to make it write back to database:

{categories}
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="{category_id}" {checked} />{category_name}</label>
{/categories} 

One more question: is it possible to sort categories alphabetically by title rather than ID?
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Rob Sanchez
Posted: 13 October 2010 01:34 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Currently, there’s no way to change the sorting on the categories.
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Florian Auckenthaler
Posted: 13 January 2011 07:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Hi Rob,

this works well, but can I break out the category groups into separate lists? I have two category groups attached to a channel and when I use the code above, it lists both category groups in one big list. but these two category groups are not really related and it looks weird if they are all in one list.

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Rob Sanchez
Posted: 13 January 2011 07:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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You can specify the group_id in the categories tag. Also, you can now specify order_by, too.

{categories group_id="1"}
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="{category_id}" {checked} />{category_name}</label>
{/categories} 
{categories group_id="2" order_by="category_name"}
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="{category_id}" {checked} />{category_name}</label>
{/categories} 
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Florian Auckenthaler
Posted: 13 January 2011 07:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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brilliant! just what i need.
thank you Rob!!
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