REST API: Get ID of current node's category
How can I get the ID of the category inside the board? I want to get the ID of the category for a board and want to display the other boards in that category by getting its ID and using the following...
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Hi Gursimrat,
rather than via REST, have you tried using the coreNode context object? I think you should be able to retrieve this information by looking for the ID of the coreNode or by looking up at its ancestors.
The documentation can be found here
Regards,
- Using ${coreNode.ancestors} gives FreeMarker template error
That's very odd - it should be fine when called from the context of a board. What error are you getting? Please keep in mind that ancestors is an array so you would need to look into the array elements to find out the information around the node's ancestors.
For example:
${coreNode.ancestors[0].id}Would return the id of the first ancestor.
Or is there any widget in Lithium which can display the boards in the current category?
Lets say Category Animals has boards Tiger, Horse, Rhino, Lion, Elephant etc and when I am inside Board Horse, I should be able to see the other 4 boards inside Animals Category.
Thanks
Here are a couple more examples of working with coreNode.ancestors that might give you some ideas:
- I think you would need to make a custom component and get the category id using ${coreNode.ancestors[0].id}, then get the boards from this category using rest api (/restapi/vc/categories/id/${coreNode.ancestors[0].id}) and parse the response to get all boards.
You would surely need to eliminate the board which are currently on, this can be done using some freemarker logic.
Thanks
