module (Catalogs)

Parameters and Options

Liquid Output

The below example has 2 sample items but is otherwise the default structure you will get from this Component.

{
  "Params": {
    "source": "Catalogs",
    "layout": "",
    "type": "module",
    "collectionvariable": "allCatalogs"
  },
  "Pagination": {
    "CurrentPage": 1,
    "ItemsPerPage": 10,
    "NumberOfPages": 1,
    "TotalItemsCount": 2
  },
  "Parent": {
    "Id": 2545,
    "Name": "module (Catalogs)",
    "Url": "/component-types/module-catalogs",
    "Url_List": [
      "/component-types/module-catalogs"
    ],
    "UrlSlug": "module-catalogs",
    "ParentId": 2127,
    "ParentId_List": [
      2127
    ],
    "ParentName": "Liquid Components",
    "ParentUrl": "/component-types",
    "TemplateName": "Docs Template",
    "Module_Alias": "DocumentationPost",
    "Module_ID": 1870,
    "Enabled": true,
    "ReleaseDate": "2018-09-03T23:00:00",
    "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-09T00:00:00",
    "SiteSearchKeywords": [],
    "Description": "\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{data}}\", lang: \"liquid\" %}\r\n\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"section_parameters\" %}\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"json\", source_type:\"string\", source:\"{{tabularData}}\", layout:\"/snippets/tabularJSON.layout\" %}\r\n</section>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"section_output\" %}\r\n\r\n{% component source: \"Catalogs\", layout: "", type: \"module\", collectionVariable: \"allCatalogs\" %}\r\n<p>The below example has 2 sample <code>items</code> but is otherwise the default structure you will get from this Component.</p>\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{allCatalogs}}\", lang: \"json\" %}\r\n</section>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"section_accessing_data\" %}\r\n\r\n<p>This data is accessible in two main ways:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. Using Liquid in the specified Layout via the <code>this</code> object.</p>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{data}}\", lang: \"liquid\" %}\r\n\r\n<p>2. Directly on the Page or Template via a Liquid Collection if <code>collectionVariable</code> was added to the Component tag.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>An example using <code>collectionVariable</code> with value \"allCatalogs\" to list all \"Catalogss\" across the site:</p>\r\n<p class=\"notice-note\">Here we suppress any Layout from rendering by setting <code>layout: \"\"</code> as an empty attribute.</p>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{data}}\", lang: \"liquid\" %}\r\n\r\n<p><em>Looping through the collection to render all the item URLs in a list, giving us:</em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n    \r\n        <li>/catalogs/sample-catalog-1</li>\r\n    \r\n        <li>/catalogs/sample-catalog-2</li>\r\n    \r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<p><em>The code:</em></p>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{data}}\", lang: \"liquid\" %}\r\n\r\n<p><em>Accessing a specific item within the collection. In this case the second item (zero based index), which in our example would render the value <code>/catalogs/sample-catalog-2</code></em></p>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"code_block_processor\", data: \"{{data}}\", lang: \"liquid\" %}\r\n</section>\r\n</section>\r\n\r\n{% component type: \"snippet\", alias: \"section_counter\" %}\r\n</section>\r\n",
    "Weighting": 894,
    "DisableForSiteSearch": false,
    "CreatedByMemberId": "0",
    "ItemCategories": [],
    "ItemCategoryIdList": [],
    "ItemTags": [
      "Ecommerce"
    ],
    "Author": 0,
    "Author_Name": "",
    "Author_Url": "",
    "Item_Rating": 0,
    "Active": true,
    "IgnoreUpdates": true,
    "UpdatesLog": "<ul><li>27-Oct-2020 | 5.6.0 | Added 'ignoreWeighting' parameter</li><li>All new article</li></ul>",
    "ExternalResources": "",
    "AdditionalRelatedArticle": 0,
    "AdditionalRelatedArticle2": 0,
    "Authors": "2418",
    "ShowPageForSearchEngine": true,
    "MetaTitle": "",
    "SEOTitle": "",
    "MetaDescription": "This module component fetches data relating to eCommerce Catalogs and can be used to render Catalog structures and Products within them.",
    "CanonicalLink": "",
    "SocialMetaTags": "",
    "SeoPriority": 0.8,
    "EnableAMP": false,
    "AMPContent": "",
    "OpenGraphProperties": {
      "title": "",
      "type": "",
      "url": "",
      "locale": "",
      "image": ""
    },
    "ExternalId": 0,
    "Params": {
      "type": "snippet",
      "alias": "section_output",
      "data": "\r\n{% component type: \"module\", source: \"Catalogs\", layout: \"List\" %}\r\n",
      "lang": "liquid",
      "name": "SECTION Output",
      "content": "<section id=\"secOutput\">\n    <h2>Liquid Output</h2>",
      "enabled": true,
      "required": "true",
      "values": "List <em>(default)</em><br>&lt;Your Layout name&gt;"
    }
  },
  "Items": [
    {
      "Id": 2533,
      "Name": "Sample Catalog 1",
      "Url": "/catalogs/sample-catalog-1",
      "Url_List": [
        "/catalogs/sample-catalog-1"
      ],
      "UrlSlug": "sample-catalog-1",
      "ParentId": 2493,
      "ParentId_List": [
        -1
      ],
      "ParentName": "",
      "ParentUrl": "",
      "TemplateName": "",
      "Module_Alias": "Catalog",
      "Module_ID": 2493,
      "Enabled": true,
      "ReleaseDate": "2020-05-06T23:00:00",
      "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-11T13:00:00",
      "SiteSearchKeywords": [],
      "Description": "<p>Sample catalog for the ecommerce store.</p>",
      "Weighting": 0,
      "DisableForSiteSearch": false,
      "CreatedByMemberId": "0",
      "ItemCategories": [],
      "ItemCategoryIdList": [],
      "ItemTags": [],
      "Author": 0,
      "Author_Name": "",
      "Author_Url": "",
      "Item_Rating": 0,
      "Test1": null,
      "ThumbnailImage": "/images/template-detail-solar-mobile@2x.png",
      "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false,
      "MetaTitle": "",
      "SEOTitle": "",
      "MetaDescription": "",
      "CanonicalLink": "",
      "SocialMetaTags": "",
      "SeoPriority": 0.5,
      "EnableAMP": false,
      "AMPContent": "",
      "OpenGraphProperties": {
        "title": null,
        "type": null,
        "url": null,
        "locale": null,
        "image": null
      },
      "ExternalId": 0,
      "Params": {}
    },
    {
      "Id": 2534,
      "Name": "Sample Catalog 2",
      "Url": "/catalogs/sample-catalog-2",
      "Url_List": [
        "/catalogs/sample-catalog-2"
      ],
      "UrlSlug": "sample-catalog-2",
      "ParentId": 2493,
      "ParentId_List": [
        -1
      ],
      "ParentName": "",
      "ParentUrl": "",
      "TemplateName": "",
      "Module_Alias": "Catalog",
      "Module_ID": 2493,
      "Enabled": true,
      "ReleaseDate": "2020-05-06T23:00:00",
      "ExpiryDate": "2099-12-11T13:00:00",
      "SiteSearchKeywords": [
        "twotwo"
      ],
      "Description": "<p>Sample catalog for ecommerce store.</p>",
      "Weighting": 0,
      "DisableForSiteSearch": false,
      "CreatedByMemberId": "0",
      "ItemCategories": [],
      "ItemCategoryIdList": [],
      "ItemTags": [],
      "Author": 0,
      "Author_Name": "",
      "Author_Url": "",
      "Item_Rating": 0,
      "Test1": null,
      "ThumbnailImage": "/images/template-detail-juss-mobile@2x.png",
      "ShowPageForSearchEngine": false,
      "MetaTitle": "",
      "SEOTitle": "",
      "MetaDescription": "",
      "CanonicalLink": "",
      "SocialMetaTags": "",
      "SeoPriority": 0.5,
      "EnableAMP": false,
      "AMPContent": "",
      "OpenGraphProperties": {
        "title": null,
        "type": null,
        "url": null,
        "locale": null,
        "image": null
      },
      "ExternalId": 0,
      "Params": {}
    }
  ]
}

Accessing the Data

{% component type: ... collectionVariable: "myData" %}

{{myData}}

{{this['url']}}

{% component type: "module", source: "Catalogs", layout: "", collectionVariable: "allCatalogs" %}

<ul>
    {% for i in allCatalogs.items %}
        <li>{{i['url']}}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

{{allCatalogs.items[1]['url']}}

Counter

Along with the data output above, there is also a special liquid tag available {{counter}} which increments for each item. This tag is only available within Layouts when object: "item" is used in the Component tag.

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