Toolkit support for how long or can a dynamic nav be replaced without toolkit

[tammu]

Our store uses a lot of toolkit functions including building dynamic custom navigations for our deep level categories. I am using parentcat and subcat functions of toolkit to display a custom navigation in such way that it will only display the parent category and it child categories of a particular category no matter what level it is. So for example:

Parent: Gifts for Pet Lovers
Sub Cat Level 1: T-Shirts & Accessories
Sub Cat Level 2: Stickers
Sub Cat Level 2: Tees
Sub Cat Level 3: Dogs
Sub Cat Level 3: Cats
Sub Cat Level 3:Birds
Sub Cat Level 2: Hats
Sub Cat Level 2: Keychains

Parent: Pet Bakery
Sub Cat Level 1: Everyday Treats
Sub Cat Level 1: Seasonal Treats
Sub Cat Level 2: Summer
Sub Cat Level 2: 4th of July
Sub Cat Level 1 Cookies
Sub Cat Level 1: Cakes

So currently we have set it up in such way is no matter what category page you are on under gifts for pet lovers, the entire parent menu with its sub categories are displayed and no other categories on these pages. Is this possible without using toolkit.

Thanks

[Nick]

You could use the CategoryList_Load_All function to get all the categories in the store. In the array there is a depth variable that you can check to see what level the category so it can be styled as needed:

<mvt:do name="l.settings:category_count" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_CategoryList_Load_All( l.settings:categories_list )" />
<mvt:foreach iterator="category" array="categories_list">
               Level &mvt:category:depth;- &mvt:category:name;<br>
</mvt:foreach>

[tammu]

Hi Nick,

When I use this code in a content theme component and add it to CTGY page, it displays all the categories in the but at same time does not display the products assigned to that category.

Thanks.

[Nick]

To get the products assigned you could do something like this:

HTML Code:
<mvt:do name="l.settings:category_count" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_CategoryList_Load_All( l.settings:categories_list )" />
     <mvt:foreach iterator="category" array="categories_list">
          <mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="CategoryXProduct_Load_Category(l.settings:c ategory:id, l.settings:categoryxproduct)" />
          Level &mvt:category:depth;- &mvt:category:name;<br>
          <mvt:foreach iterator="cat_product" array="categoryxproduct">
               <mvt:do file="g.Module_Library_DB" name="l.success" value="Product_Load_ID(l.settings:cat_product:prod uct_id, l.settings:product )" />
               -- &mvt:product:name;
          </mvt:foreach>
     </mvt:foreach>