nVelocity access to Order.item.Product.Category.Name

[voir]

I need to access the Category a product was purchased from in order emails and Receipt page(s)
I tried

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foo
...
#foreach($orderItem in $order.Items)
#foreach($itemCategory in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
$itemCategory.Name
...
blah

but it didn't work, is there an easier way?

[mazhar]

Use the following code

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#foreach($pcid in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
#foreach($sc in $store.Categories)
#if($sc.CategoryId == $pcid)
$sc.Name
#end
#end
#end

in place of the following line

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#foreach($itemCategory in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
$itemCategory.Name

[heinscott]

Is there a way of knowing what NVelocity variables are available on any given page on Able? I'm having trouble figuring this out, even though it seems pretty straight forward. For instance, I am on my Members/MyOrder.aspx?OrderId=74 page, and I wanted to include tracking numbers on the page (I don't really want to do this here, but, for this scenario, lets assume that I do.) Now, in accordance with other documentation (as well as the email templates), I thought that I had the variable "$order" available to represent that particular order. Is this not true? I was not able to use it at all, even though this page is dedicated to a particular order. Just for the sake of testing, I tried $order.OrderId... only to have it printed as "$order.OrderId" on the page.
My $store variable works, so, you can see how I would be confused. Ultimately, I want to include tracking numbers in my Order Completed emails, but, that should be easy once I get past this first step.
Thanks for the help.

Scott

[voir]

Cool beans! UR awesome Mazhar, much thanks

[Shopping Cart Admin]

Hello Scott,

The velocity syntax is for emails and code snippets, you can reference our CommerceBuilder api guide for the information you're looking for use in the .aspx pages.

[voir]

Update:My goal was to use Category.Summary to hold important messages per category to be displayed in the confirmation email, on the recieptpage, viewmyorder and printmyorder For example

• Handcrafted items from peru take 8-10 weeks for delivery

... the conlib locations were easy I created a control GetCategoryMessagesbyOrderId.ascx that took an orderid looped through got all unique messages and returned a string with them all in it ... nVelocity was a bit harder, I couldn't figure out how to add to an array only if the item wasn't already in the array ... if only I could call [[conlib:GetCategoryMessagebyOrderId OrderId=$order.OrderId]] inside the email template ... oh well, this is what I ended up doing instead:

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#set ($messages = [])
#foreach($orderItem in $order.Items)
#foreach($itemCategory in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
#foreach($pcid in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
#foreach($sc in $store.Categories)
#if($sc.CategoryId == $pcid)
#set($Contains = 0)
#foreach($tempMessage in $messages)
#if($tempMessage == $sc.Message)
#set($Contains=1)
#end
#end
#if ($Contains==0)
#set ($messages = [$messages,$sc.Summary])
#end
#end
#end
#end
#end
#end
#foreach($displayMessage in $messages)
$displayMessage
#end

[mazhar]

Try this code

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#foreach($orderItem in $order.Items)
	#foreach($pcid in $orderItem.Product.Categories)
		#foreach($c in $store.Categories)
			#if($c.CategoryId == $pcid)
				$c.Summary
			#end
		#end
	#end
#end