Listing category in entry

[Jameson Watkins <JW...@kumc.edu>]

Hi, quick question from a roller newbie.
 
I'm setting up our environment and would like to display the category
each post is in. I can't find a velocimacro on the wiki site to display
this, although I see it on a number of roller blogs. It may be that I
don't understand the syntax of the showWeblogEntriesInCategory. Here's
the format I'm looking for:
 
Blog Entry 1
[permalink] [category] 
 
I'm using roller 1.2.
 
Thanks.
 
 
Jameson Watkins
Director, Internet Development
University of Kansas Medical Center
http://www.kumc.edu/
913-588-7387

Re: Listing category in entry

[Dave Johnson <da...@rollerweblogger.org>]

You should be able to use $entry.category.name to get the category name.

- Dave



On Oct 26, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Jameson Watkins wrote:

> Hi, quick question from a roller newbie.
>
> I'm setting up our environment and would like to display the category
> each post is in. I can't find a velocimacro on the wiki site to display
> this, although I see it on a number of roller blogs. It may be that I
> don't understand the syntax of the showWeblogEntriesInCategory. Here's
> the format I'm looking for:
>
> Blog Entry 1
> [permalink] [category]
>
> I'm using roller 1.2.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Jameson Watkins
> Director, Internet Development
> University of Kansas Medical Center
> http://www.kumc.edu/
> 913-588-7387
>

Re: Listing category in entry

[Anil Gangolli <an...@busybuddha.org>]

This is  not  governed by showWeblogEntriesInCategory, but rather what 
you do in the day template (typically _day.vm).

You probably have something like a #foreach ($entry in $entries) loop in 
your _day.vm.
Within that loop, for a given $entry, the category name is accessible as 
$entry.category.name.  So basically
"[$entry.category.name]" in the right place should give you what you 
want.  If you want that to be a link to the full category,
that's also possible and here's a little macro I use on my blog:

#**
 * Display the entry category as a link with class entrycategorylink
 *#
#macro( showEntryCategoryLink $entry )
    <a 
href="$baseURL/page/$userName/Weblog?catname=$utilities.encode($entry.category.path)"
       class="entrycategorylink">
      [$entry.category.name]
    </a>
#end

Jameson Watkins wrote:

>Hi, quick question from a roller newbie.
> 
>I'm setting up our environment and would like to display the category
>each post is in. I can't find a velocimacro on the wiki site to display
>this, although I see it on a number of roller blogs. It may be that I
>don't understand the syntax of the showWeblogEntriesInCategory. Here's
>the format I'm looking for:
> 
>Blog Entry 1
>[permalink] [category] 
> 
>I'm using roller 1.2.
> 
>Thanks.
> 
> 
>Jameson Watkins
>Director, Internet Development
>University of Kansas Medical Center
>http://www.kumc.edu/
>913-588-7387
>
>
>  
>