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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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Gursimrat
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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

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sunny_mody
Advisor
11 years ago
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