articles_v1_categoryLookup Property Template

Enables category selection using type-ahead search. Represents selections as a querystring or comma-separated values.

Supported Data Types

custom

Scripted Extension Configuration XML

<property id="propertyId" labelResourceName="nameResource" descriptionResourceName="descriptionResource" dataType="custom" template="articles_v1_categoryLookup" enableCurrent="true" maxSelections="1" format="query" collectionPropertyId="" collectionId="" />

Plugin Configuration C#

var property = new Property
{
	Id = "propertyId",
	LabelResourceName = "nameResource",
	DescriptionResourceName = "descriptionResource",
	DataType = "custom",
	Template = "articles_v1_categoryLookup",
	Options = new NameValueCollection
	{
		{ "enableCurrent", "true" },
		{ "maxSelections", "1" },
		{ "format", "query" },
		{ "collectionPropertyId", "" },
		{ "collectionId", "" }
	}
};

Options

Name	Description	Default	Options
enableCurrent	When true, enables curent category selection (represented with an ID of -1).	true	true, false
maxSelections	The number of categorys that can be selected.	1
format	Identifies whether to serialize selected values as a querystring (Category=ID&Category=ID&...) or comma-seperated list (ID,ID,ID,..).	query	query, csv
collectionPropertyId	The ID of a property selecting a single article collection by ID in which to look for articles.
collectionId	The ID of an article collection to search categories in.

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