Custom components to show categories/title

skylinegtr in future post, please list what you've been trying ;)

Now, based on this tutorial, and the category resource, I assume this code would work:

<h2>JOIN THE DISCUSSION</h2>
<#--Use the rest FreeMarker context object, passing the rest_version parameter and LiQL query (encoded by appending ?url) -->
<#assign categories = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT id, title, topics.count(*), messages.count(*), views, view_href FROM categories ORDER BY topics.count(*) ASC"?url) />
<ul>
<#list categories.data.items as category > 
<li><a href=“${category.view_href}”>${category.title}</a><br />

Topics count: ${category.topics.count} <br />
Messages count: ${category.messages.count} <br />

</li>
</#list>
</ul>

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OlivierS – Thanks for your help with this. Sorry, I should have been clearer.

What I’m trying to do is to display 3 subject/topics for each category in the custom components.

For example:

The Blog has Topic/Subject- Bartz Blog, Ben’s Suport, Support News, Process

Knowledge & Support has Topic/Subject-Customer Knowledge Base, Customer Product Ideas, Partner Knowledge Base.

It’s my first time dealing with API’s. 

The code below lists categories and the boards within them.

<#assign category = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + "SELECT id, title, boards FROM categories"?url).data.items![] />
<#list category as category>
<h2>${category.title}</a></h2>
<#assign board = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + category.boards.query?url).data.items![] />
<ul>
<#if board?size gt 0>
<#list board as board>
<li><a href="${board.view_href}">${board.title}</a></li>
</#list>
<#else>
<li>No boards in this category</li>
</#if>
</#list>

It shows the following:

                Knowledge & Support

               -Customer Knowledge Base

• -Customer Product Ideas
  -Partner Knowledge Base
  -Internal Knowledge Base
  -TSE Notes
  Forums
  -Customer Product Discussion
  -Customer Tools, Tips & Tricks
  -Customer General Discussion
  -Partner Forum
  -Employee Product Discussion
  -Employee Social Discussion
  -TSE Discussion
  -SQL Experts Forum
  Idea Exchange
  Internal Idea Exchange
  @SupportOps
  Blogs
  -Ben's Support Sermon
  -Support News, Process, and Announcements
  -Bartz Blog

 If I only want the categories for the Forums or Knowledge and Support? How can I accomplish this?

OlivierS Thank you!