Category image, title & summary in sidebar

[GrfxDan]

I'm trying to do something that I think should be simple but it's obviously over my head as I haven't been able to figure it out. What I'd like is to do is add the following to the left sidebar of my category pages:

1) The category image
2) The category title
3) The category summary

It would be really nice if this were a seperate file in my Conlib folder so I could simply include a line in the sidebar scriptlet like [[Conlib:categoryinfo]]

Can anyone help me out?

Dan
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[mazhar]

1) The category image

You can do something like this on category page scriptlets

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#if ($Category.ThumbnailUrl.Substring(0,2) == "~/")
    <img src='$Store.StoreUrl/$Category.ThumbnailUrl.Substring(2)' border="0" />
#else
    <img src='${Store.StoreUrl}${Category.ThumbnailUrl}' border="0" />
#end

2) The category title

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$Category.Name

3) The category summary

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$Category.Summary

Finally have a look at this control as well.
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=14818

[GrfxDan]

Mazhar, thanks so much! That's what I needed.

One more question: Is there a way, using the scriptlet code above to display the category thumbnail, to modify the thumbnail filename?

I have 2 versions of my category thumbnails, the default thumbnail image (120px square) and a larger version (160px square). The default 120px version is the one used by AbleCommerce, and is what's returned using the code you provided. My larger version has an _l appended to the filename and is the one that I actually want displayed in the sidebar. Example: thunbmail.jpg is the 120px version and thumbnail_l.jpg is the 160px version. I've previously figured out how to insert the "_l" in the filename when working with an .ascx file but I have no idea how to do this in a scriplet, if it's even possible. Is it?

Thanks again!

[GrfxDan]

Another thought too: I had no idea that adding the category name and summary would be as simple as $Category.Name and $Category.Summary in the scriplet. Is there a list somewhere of the available variables that can be used in scriplets like this? I realize they probably vary from page to page but if there were a master list showing all of them that would be very helpful in the future.

[GrfxDan]

Anyone know how to do this?

[mazhar]

Have a look at this topic
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... scriptlets