Hi,

I have a repository with several categories. I would like to have a link on another page that takes you to the repository with a certain category pre-selected and the repository filtered accordingly. For example, "Click HERE to view repository for category XYZ." I'm not sure if this might be done using Javascript to detect a URL variable and reload the page accordingly (not ideal since the repository takes several seconds to load), or maybe a server side ASPX script.

Has anyone done this or could suggest a solution?

Thank you,

Simon.

Hi

It happens that I had exactly the same question so thanks to both of you (for asking and answering).  However I also wanted to ask if I can set a default value for the category field in the form? What I want to do is to have several instances of the same repository on different tabs and depending on the hosting tab have anoter default value selected. I guess I can use js to do it but I thought maybe there is a more elegant way. Finally I wandered if the Select: Single attribute for the CATEGORIES token in form sould work? I tried it several times however I always get a checkboxs list never a radio buttons one.

I'm on DNN 4.9 repository ersion 3.1.15.

Thanks,

OrenG

yes, the querystring paramters is 'attrib'.   So you have to do a little digging into the database to get the IDs of the attributes you want, then add an attrib name value pair to the querystring, with the IDs as a comma delimited value

So to extend the previous example, if you wanted to pre-select category ID 17 and also pre-select attributes 12 and 17 the URL would look like this...

http://www.gooddogs.com/dotnetnuke/Downloads/tabid/100/grm2catid/17/attrib/12,17/Default.aspx