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Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago

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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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

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,

 

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Gursimrat
Leader
12 years ago
Using ${coreNode.ancestors} gives FreeMarker template error
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    PaoloT
    Lithium Alumni (Retired)
    12 years ago

    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.