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Introduction

What does it do?

This extension provides a generic category selector for lists of objects that are based on extbase/fluid and sys_category. You can display a configurable category tree with object count and use it for filtering a given list of objects. The category selector can be used with your own extbase extension or any third party extension from TER.

Features

  • flexible starting points
  • possibility to exclude certain categories
  • recursion to a specified category level
  • AND based selection of multiple categories
  • dynamic object count based on selected categories
  • dynamic tree display based on selected categories
  • widget for filtering a list of objects by selected categories

Screenshots

Extension Manager

An example category selector used together with the tx_news extension (6.2 introduction package).

Category selector flexform sheet 1

Basic plugin settings of the category selector: starting points for the frontend tree, categories to exclude and level of recursion for the category tree.

Category selector flexform sheet 2

Plugin settings for the object count and the handling of categories with no items.

Credits

This extension is being developed by the Digital Academy of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz. You can find us on Twitter (@digicademy) and take part in the development on GitHub.

Credits for sponsoring go to the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and TELOTA.

The extension icon is from Typicons by Stephen Hutchings.