Category selection

Description

Shows a list of all available categories. The user can select with a checkbox which ones to assign to the page. Categories can be managed in the settings section of Sulu. The selection will be saved as an array.

Note

This content type is rarely needed because the Excerpt and Taxonomies allows to assign categories to pages.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
item_disabled_condition	string	Allows to set a jexl expression that evaluates if an item should be displayed as disabled. Disabled items cannot be selected.
request_parameters	collection	Collection of parameters that are appended to the requests sent by the selection.
resource_store_properties_to_request	collection	Collection of property names. The value of the respective properties are appended to the requests sent by the selection.
min	string	The minimum number of selected categories
max	string	The maximum number of selected categories

Example

<property name="categories" type="category_selection">
    <meta>
        <title lang="en">Category Selection</title>
    </meta>
</property>

Extended Example

Following example defines an entry category for the selection tree.

<property name="categories" type="category_selection">
    <meta>
        <title lang="en">Category Selection</title>
    </meta>
    <params>
        <param name="request_parameters" type="collection">
            <param name="rootKey" value="my_category_key"/>
        </param>
    </params>
</property>

Twig

{% for category in content.categories %}
    <h3>{{ category.name }}</h3>
{% endfor %}

If you want to list all categories in your template you can use the sulu_categories twig extension for it.