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Warren_Brill
Boss
11 years ago
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I Need to Retrieve the Category Description Field and Display it On the Category Page. How?

The category description field is not exposed to the UI by default. Nor is there a setting in the Admin to display it. I need it to be visible, not just to search engines, but to members. What is the...
  • KaelaC's avatar
    KaelaC
    11 years ago

    The setting is called category.description.  You can certainly get it through REST API like this

     

    /restapi/vc/categories/id/[category id]/settings/name/category.description

     

    You could also try getting through the coreNode context object ${coreNode.settings.name.get("category.description", "")} but I haven't tested that one out.

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VarunGrazitti
Boss
11 years ago

Warren_Brill - There is a workaround for this, i.e. you can use the following in the header of your wrapper or in a custom component. This will also include the title, which you can hide with CSS if need be, and display only the description.

 

<@component id="common.widget.node-information"/>