A need for a thread about custom cat fields.

[fastees]

We need this thread.

I have this that works great for products but need it for categories.

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:product:customfield_values:custom fields:magic EQ '1'">

But for categories, this does not work....

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="customcategory|cattemp|l.all_settings:categ ory:id|cattemplate" />
<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL g.cattemp">
<mvt:if expr="l.settings:category:customfield_values:custo mfields:cattemp EQ '1'">
1 does this
<mvt:elseif expr="l.settings:category:customfield_values:custo mfields:cattemp EQ '2'">
2 does this
<mvt:elseif expr="l.settings:category:customfield_values:custo mfields:cattemp EQ '3'">
3 does this
<mvt:else>
Default should do this
</mvt:if>
</mvt:if>

[Brennan]

Re: A need for a thread about custom cat fields.

The logic you have above uses toolkit and the "old" method of custom category fields. I would recommend using the new custom field functions as there is much more docs/examples and they will be easier to maintain since it does not rely on toolkit.

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Category_Code( l.settings:category:code, 'cattemplate', g.cattemp )" />



<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL g.cattemp">


    <mvt:if expr="g.cattemp EQ '1'"> 
        1 does this
    <mvt:elseif expr="g.cattemp EQ '2'">
        2 does this
    <mvt:elseif expr="g.cattemp EQ '3'">
        3 does this
    <mvt:else>
        Default should do this
    </mvt:if> 
    
</mvt:if>

Here are some docs/videos which should help:

http://www.miva.com/videos/web_devel...-overview1/125
http://www.miva.com/videos/web_devel...-overview1/125
http://www.miva.com/videos/web_devel...functions1/125

[lesliekirk]

Along the same lines (yes I have looked at the docs more than one and they seem more complicated than it really used to be) how do I pull a value in.

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Category_Code( l.settings:category:code, 'altcattitle', g.act )" />

<mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL g.act">
hmmmm
</mvt:if>

It displays my "hmmm" message, but I need to pull in the value of the custom field. I guess I'm missing the write function? I've looked at the examples but I'm just not getting it.

[lesliekirk]

Sometimes I should just wait until I've had my morning mocha, then go back and find my own answers to this

<mvt:item name="customfields" param="Read_Category_Code( g.Category_Code, 'altcattitle', g.altcattitle )" />
&mvte:global:altcattitle;

That get the data to display, I should now be able to wrap a conditional around it

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

One point of clarification that I see a lot of folks miss.

Product Level custom fields are different from others. For product level fields, each template that uses them, and has a Product 'item' assigned, gives you a select box to choose which product custom fields are 'read' into the page. For Category custom fields you HAVE to do that manually using the Red_Category_xxxx() functions. (We sometimes just do this in the Head or Profile tag so we don't have to repeat it when multiple pages use the cat custom fields.