Category layout "FAQ": show all subcats, limit items

Hi,

I try to realise a dictionary view using the „faq“ template.

It would be nice to get an option „show ALL subcategories“ (1st sublevel) – independet of pagination option „# per page“, to show all subcategories by one page. At the moment I has to set a high number on „# per page“ to make sure that all 1st subcat would be displayed on maincategory: our dictonary gets continually new items or categories.

Also my wish is to have an option to set a fix limit of items showing on subcategories, for example 5 or 10 (newest) items, for a better overview in maincategory.

merci (:

Flexicontent: 2.1.2 r1806

Hello

yes, these suggestion make sense, and we have thought of it too and want to implement it

-- but this is planned as future work,
to implement this now, would be possible only via paid work


-- in your case you may do it now, by doing yourself 1 query per subcategory inside your custom FLEXIcontent template (see explanation below)


Explanation:
1. these are not possible without altering the category retrieval query,

2. it may require 1 sub-query PER CATEGORY
this would be OK (considering performance),
but it will be slow in large sites, that have more than have thousands of items per category)

... the 1 sub-query PER CATEGORY and thus the need to change the category Database Model is to be able to limit the items per sub-category