Link page 'x' <> news category 'x'

[sivanov]

Hello, here is my problem: I want to open the list of news from category 'x' when I click on a certain page from the website (with alias = 'x'). In other words, the content of the page (with alias 'x') must be the list of summary news from category 'x'. Could you help me?

[velden]

Assuming page alias == category:

(optional) category="category" - Used in the summary view to display only items for the specified categories. Use * after the name to show children. Multiple categories can be used if separated with a comma. Leaving empty, will show all categories.

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{news category=$page_alias}

Assuming page alias != category:

Add content block to the page template:

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{content block="newscat" oneline=1 label="News category" assign="newscat"}

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{if !empty($newscat)}
  {news category=$newscat}
{else}
  {news}
{/if}

[sivanov]

Thanks a lot for your response! I still need some help.

In this website careersphysics.info there are 3 content pages - About, Consult and Work. Accordingly there are 3 news categories named alike. So there is 1 to 1 correspondence page <-> category.

My question was: Is it possible when I click on one of the pages (in the left sidebar), for example "About", to open the list of all news summaries from the respective category "About" as page content (in the middle bar)?

As if I have the news category browser in the left sidebar formatted as pages.

[velden]

Yes, that's exactly what was written above, but note that the page ALIAS should be same as news CATEGORY.

Just paste
{news category=$page_alias}
in the content of the respective pages.

Note that the news module also has a category action. So you don't need to make it this way. You can create a category template in the News module and use that to create your 'menu'. IF your menu only consists of News categories. If you want other pages to show up too, it might be easier to stick to your plan.

[sivanov]

Yes, now it works. Thank you and happy Holidays!

[staartmees]

please put [solved] before the title.