How to access the category property in a block?

Timea Eriksson

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Hi!

We're having problems accessing the built in Category property in a block. If we get a default instance of a block and quickwatch it when debugging, we can see that the Category property is there, reached by ((Castle.Proxies.MyBlockProxy) (CurrentBlock)).Category. But how can we reach the categorylist by our CurrentBlock and be able to use its values? Or isn't this built in category property supposed to be used in a block?

Best regards,

Timea

#63997

Dec 06, 2012 14:34

Ruwen Jin

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you need cast it to

ICategorizable

see http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Johan-Bjornfot/Dates1/2012/11/Shared-blocks--IContent/

#63998

Dec 06, 2012 14:39

Timea Eriksson

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And how easy it is when you know the answer. Thanks a lot :)

#63999

Dec 06, 2012 14:47

jmayberry

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For those who are still confused, this is how I finally got it to work:

((EPiServer.Core.ICategorizable)CurrentBlock).Category

which returns a CategoryList object.

#71644

Edited, May 24, 2013 22:33

Radek Szymanski

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How do you set category programmatically cuz ((EPiServer.Core.ICategorizable)CurrentBlock).Category is just a get not set.

#116815

Feb 05, 2015 12:32

Joseph Mayberry

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You can set the Category by casting your block as an ICategorizable object, and then adding the category ID.

((EPiServer.Core.ICategorizable)<block>).Category.Add(<category id>);

#181470

Aug 21, 2017 16:35