Including categories within expression engine - expressionengine

I have created a list view of news articles within Expression Engine. A user can click through on each news article to read the detail. For each entry within the list view I would like to show its associated categories - ie the categories that it has been assigned to.
I am not quite sure how to combine this category information into my channel entries loop.

So within each returned entry in the loop, you want to display the category assignments? If that's the case, just use the categories variable pair within your loop.

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MS PowerApps Deep Linking

I'm passing a parameter to a PowerApp through the calling URL called ID, i.e.
https://web.powerapps.com/apps/powerappid?ID=32
When the app launches I want it to jump from BrowseScreen1 which lists all the Business Cases and go straight to the Business Case with the matching ID (a field from a SharePoint list).
I'm brand new to PowerApps but pretty sure what I need to do is called Deep Linking and I found this tutorial https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-deep-linking/ and having read the comments to the article I'm trying to apply it to the OnStart property of BrowseScreen1. I don't really understand how the navigation link in the tutorial is constructed so I'm sure I'm using the wrong Navigation parameters as it always launches the first record in the list ignoring anything to do with the ID. I'm using:
If(Not(IsBlank(Param("ID"))),Navigate(DetailScreen1,
None,{ID:LookUp('Full Business Case For Review'.ID, ID =
Value(Param("ID")))}))
'Full Business Case For Review' is the name of the Sharepoint list and ID is a unique field that gets assigned to each list item.
The tutorial doesn't mention having to change anything on the detail screen but I've also wondered if I need to perhaps change the item properties there as they are currently:
BrowseGallery1.Selected
I'm feeling out of my depth and would really appreciate some help on this!
Thanks,
John
Yes, you need to change the Item property in the detail screen. This is because there is currently no way to select an item in a gallery programmatically in PowerApps.
I normally get around this by using a global variable to store the current item, so you can set BrowseSreen1.OnStart to this
If(Not(IsBlank(Param("ID"))),
Set(CurrentItem, LookUp('Full Business Case For Review'.ID, ID = Value(Param("ID"))));
Navigate(DetailScreen1, None)
)
This will store the item with ID equal to your parameter as a record type variable.
You also need to change the OnSelect property of your BrowseGallery1's template or whichever control is used to navigate to the detail screen. It will need to be something like this
Set(CurrentItem, ThisItem); Navigate(DetailScreen1, None)
Finally set the Item property in the detail screen simply to this
CurrentItem

Orchard 1.9.1 Container Layout

I set up the following Content Definition in an Orchard 1.9.1 site:
Manufacturer
- Logo (Media Library Picker Field)
- Container (single supported type - Product)
Product
- Containable
- [Generic Fields]
I added a few sample Product items to the site, and as part of that it had me select the Member Of option, which was a list of Manufacturer items I had already added.
The issue I have is, when I try to build a query to use with a projection widget, I can't seem to find a way to get either a Manufacturer's children, or a Product's parent container since I need to display all content on a single view. There are only going to be ~20 line items here, so performance is a non-issue. If I do multiple queries (one for each type), everything shows up individually but the Shape Tracing tool, when showing me the various Model items on the view, can't seem to show me either of these options.
My end goal is building a custom view to display this information, but I can't figure out how to traverse either up the Product to what its' parent container is, or traverse down from a Manufacturer to the child Product items below it.
How do I build a query that lets me see all of this so I can build a projection widget off of that?
Edit
I played with this some more and came across the ability to take a query and attach a layout to it. That is definitely getting me closer, however the grouping option says No properties are currently available in order to group this view, however I would think being part of a container/containable would define grouping automatically. As it stands, this lets me show everything, but unfortunately the parent/child show, and then the children repeat again, independent of the parent. It's so close, but I can't quite get it right.

Drupal views: limit results shown based on CCK field setting

I have a view that pulls in feed items (from various "Owner feeds" to use the feeds module lingo), then sorts them by date (very important). The owner feed has a CCK field for the type of feed (Twitter, Blog, etc.) and a CCK field theoretically to limit the number of feed items displayed in the view. (The reason for the limit is that Twitter dominates, but we want some blogs, etc., so I don't want to have to show 100 tweets before displaying my first blog.)
I'm guessing some sort of Views hook code is in order, but I'm not sure which one. Perhaps the hook that allows direct modification of the query...
Note that the Owner feed nid is being pulled into the view via a Relationship.
Thanks in advance!
Using the Arguments field in the view, you could first select the node type, then node post date.
In this way you could give priority to the blog type, before sorting by date.
You could also consider building two Views, for instance the top 5 blog items and the top 20 Twitter feeds...

How do I modify the Magento Search to check child skus?

Currently, the site search will search all of the skus of the items marked as being visible in search. This is all well and good.
The problem arises when the customer knows a sku of the individual child item. So, let's say a product comes in both a 20 foot and 25 foot variation. We would put those into a configurable product and have a single product page where a customer could then choose which of those two lengths.
What happens is, a customer invariably knows that the sku of the 20 ft variation is RDB-20, while the other is RDB-25. A search for RDB-25 then, comes back with no results since the simple product is not visible in search - it doesn't realize there is a match.
How do I get the search to search an item with visibility "Not Visible Individually", when it's parent is visible in search?
The desired effect is that, if a child SKU is searched for, the parent should show up in the results.
There really is no good way of doing it without extending the default search, but at that point you might as well look for other options.
Here's a workaround that might be doable depending on how you manage your products and it worked for me until I moved on from the default search.
Rather than altering the search, try adding an attribute to all products and make it hidden concatenating all the skus into this field. The search should find the text attribute and show the configurable.
Its a bit of a workaround but works for me.
This is untested, but I did a bit of perusing in our attributes and I think I found something that might help.
Currently since our child products don't show up in our search, we have the parent populate with the children product's attributes.
However, things like brand, taxable amount, description, populate for every child product while our SKU does not.
The only difference I can see between the two attributes is under manage attributes -> click on attribute -> and then under properties go to frontend properties and select
Use In Search Results Layered Navigation: YES
Used in Product Listing: YES
Use In Layered Navigation: Filterable (with results)
I'm not sure which of these do what, but in the population of the fulltext search data table, somewhere it is being told to populate for the children and I believe that the admin panel is where.
I hope this helps!

Using the search module to display entries based on custom fields

I have a profile weblog that contains all our users details (fields seperate from the membership).
These users can submit application forms with the use of a SAEF (stand alone entry form), which will be stored in an applications weblog. Inside this applications weblog, I have a relationship field which assigns a profile to an application.
Inside this application, radio buttons are contained to allow an admin to change the status of that application (an example, a judge views an application for Joe Bloggs and sets this application to “winner”).
What I essentially need to do is filter out all the profiles that have not been set to a number of status’. So if I apply for an application and the judge is yet to view this application, my profile should not appear in the search results. My idea of this is that I would somehow have to intertwine search results with a reverse related entry tag, and as my knowledge of the search module is limited I am at a complete loss if this is even possible.
As you can see, not only do I need to search by custom field, but the profiles that will be displayed should be determined on custom fields contained in the application entry.
I would suggest using the "status" option instead of the radio custom field.
Why? Because you can accomplish the same thing you want to do with the radio field and you can set what entries you want to return in your search results.
For example, you have a status group called: "Application", which is assigned to the that weblog/channel
Within the status group, you will have three options: Pending (waiting to be looked at), Loser (judge sets it to this because it is not a winner, or just as pending), Winner (judge considers that application a winner).
Then in the search tag, you would set what statuses it will return in the search results
so if you want to only return applications/profiles that were marked winner, you would set the status="status_id" (this will be the id of "Winner" status)

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