Categories list in Piranha CMS?

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I'm using Piranha Core 8 with Aspnetcore 3. So far everything is going well. (I love Piranha!) My current problem is when building a Sidebar with a list of categories. I can't figure out how to retrieve all categories from the Api.

So far, I can get a list of posts, and perhaps iterate over them to collect the categories but this seems inefficient.

Any one know how to retrieve a list of all the categories from the cshtml pages?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '20 at 07:43

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You can get the full list of taxonomies per Archive by calling the Api.

var categories = await api.GetAllCategoriesAsync(archiveId);
var tags = await api.GetAllTagsAsync(archiveId);

Best regards

answered Jan 13 '20 at 07:43

Håkan Edling

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Thanks so much. I saw that and got it working a few hours after posting. I'm an iOS dev by trade, so without documentation I am a little lost. Visual studio's assembly browser gave me a hint. Also, just so you know, I've looked at a bunch of dotnetcore CMS's and Piranha is by far my favourite! – Daniel Retief Fourie Jan 13 '20 at 08:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '21 at 15:22

From the razor page I got it working this way :

    @{
        var archiveId = WebApp.CurrentPost == null ? WebApp.CurrentPage.Id : WebApp.CurrentPost.BlogId;
        var categories = await WebApp.Api.Posts.GetAllCategoriesAsync(archiveId);
        var tags = await WebApp.Api.Posts.GetAllTagsAsync(archiveId);
    }

Categories list in Piranha CMS?

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