9 years ago
4
Topic

Hey all,

I've created a content type, and I want to separate all the listings in it by location, for this I've used categories and sub-categories. For example, a listing located in *City*, has the category structure of *Country*->*State*->*City* and then the listing.

Now in my search form, when I select *City*, and press search, the results are showing correctly, but when I select *Country* or *State*, nothing is returned.

I would like to setup the search so that selecting a state returns ALL the results from its Subcategories (all the cities in the state) and same with the Country. How can I setup my search form so that when a category is selected, it also returns the results from its subcategories?

Thanks for your help,

Valar Morghulis

EDIT: No replies? Come on guys I know this is a simple request and SEBLOD can handle it, I must be missing something simple.

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Jeka
9 years ago
0
Level 1

Hi.

I think you can use this product http://www.seblod.com/products/8538 to do what you want. 

Valar Dohaeris

9 years ago
1
Level 1

Hi Jeka,

Thanks for your reply (and the GoT greeting!), however, I'm not sure the plugin you've suggested is the right thing for me.

All I'm trying to do is simply this - when I select a top-level category, let's say 'India', and click 'Search', then I should be able to see all articles that are in that category (India), as well as all articles from its subcategories, for example - all articles under 'India', as well as 'Maharashtra' (as this is a sub-category of India), and even from 'Mumbai' (we are following the path 'India' -> 'Maharashtra' -> 'Mumbai').

I took a look at the plugin and I think it be more suited if the sub-categories were one level deep, but this is not the case.

Thanks for your help,

Valar Morghulis

178 Posts
Jeka
9 years ago
0
Level 2

Hi. 

Maybe you are right about one level, but not sure. In the settings of this field you can set fields from wich nested list will get values. 

More about that - http://www.seblod.com/resources/tutorials/create-a-dynamic-list-within-a-list-item 

Also read about "Select Dynamic Cascade", maybe it can be a solution. 

One more posible way is to use joomla categories output with http://www.seblod.com/products/8538 product.

In settins of the field you have to retrieve id of parent category.

In any case, sorry if my answers confusing you.

9 years ago
0
Level 1

Hi Jeka,

Thanks for your reply, I'll definitely research further on the plugins you've suggested.

Valar

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