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Alternative Category Suggestion Nav Templates

An alternative categories nav consists of 2 mains BLOCKs

BLOCK {home_category}
The current document's home zone.
BLOCK {other_categories}
Other zones which the document has been placed into.

A typical nav template might look something like this:

<!-- BLOCK {home_category} -->
      <p>
      <!-- IF {current}--><b><!-- /IF {current}-->
      <!-- BLOCK {breadcrumb}-->{title}>
      <!-- /BLOCK {breadcrumb}-->

      <a href="{id}">{title}</a>
      ({id })
      - {doctype }
      <!-- IF {current}--></b><!-- /IF {current}-->
      </p>
<!-- /BLOCK {home_category} -->
<!-- BLOCK {extra_categories} -->
      <p>
      <!-- IF {current}--><b><!-- /IF {current}-->
      <!-- BLOCK {breadcrumb}-->{title}>
      <!-- /BLOCK {breadcrumb}-->

      <a href="{id}">{title}</a>
      ({id })
      - {doctype }
      <!-- IF {current}--></b><!-- /IF {current}-->
      </p>
<!-- /BLOCK {extra_categories} -->

The above example would out a list of zone placement details something like this:

Product Category (product_category) - store_index

Home > News (news) - page

Home > The North > Stories from your town (n_stories) - page

Home > Surfing Products (surfing) - store_index

BLOCK home_category / BLOCK extra_category Placeholder List:

The placeholders used in these nav templates are summarised in the table below:

Placeholder Output
{id} ID (url) of the zone.
{title} Title of the zone.
{parent} The zone's parent
{doctype} The doctype of the zone index page
BLOCK {current} This is set to true if the user is currently viewing the document from within this zone.
BLOCK {breadcrumb} A block containing each element of the breadcrumb trail for the current zone

BLOCK breadcrumb Placeholder List:

The placeholders used in the breadcrumb BLOCK are listed below:

Placeholder Output
{id} ID (url) of this zone in the breadcrumb trail.
{title} Title of the this zone in the breadcrumb trail.