Using Category To Populate A PageList

Phil Lawrence

Vote:

I would like to know how to use a category to effectively filter a list of pages. We are currently trying to achieve this by binding a datasource to a propertycriteria but this is not returning any results. I have been using the following code...



Global.EPDataFactory.FindPagesWithCriteria(Global.EPConfig.StartPage, _criterias)

And _criterias is set as follows



_criterias = New PropertyCriteriaCollection
Dim criteria As PropertyCriteria = New PropertyCriteria
criteria.Name = “Group Two”
criteria.Type = PropertyDataType.Category 
criteria.Condition = CompareCondition.Equal
criteria.Required = True
criteria.Value = “How to Guides”
_criterias.Add(criteria)

So far I have not been able to get any results using this method. Please let me know how to set up criteria to retrieve documents having any given category name set to true.

#12712

Jul 17, 2006 11:39

Vote:

I think from memory you need to use the (int) version of the category not the string version, but of course this then needs to be conerted to a string representation of it. Something like this....


Category aCategory = Category.Find("How to Guides");
                if (aCategory != null)
                    criteria.Value = aCategory.ID.ToString();
                else
                    return ""; // Don't Search or Filter!

Hope this sheds some light on your day!

#14775

Jul 18, 2006 8:57