Hi Nick,

What datatype is used for categories?

Thanks, Alex

Hey Alex,

Datatype Articulate Categories is used. The property editor alias is Umbraco.Tags.

Hopefully this helps.

Thanks.

Nick,

You have to create new category group for you second blog, now you are using one category dataType and 2 blogs, so it's merging.

Look here:

http://screencast.com/t/b8q1PHXT

ahhhh that makes a lot of sense!

Alright so I went ahead and created a new category datatype. 

How would i go about linking the new category datatype to the second blog instead of using the same as the first blog?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, thanks again! ^_^

Nick,

Alternatively you can customize your blogs, as you see root blog node has "Customize" tab, where you can change category, tag and search url param name - http://screencast.com/t/5PxV4JRa

Change url param names for second blog.

Thanks, Alex

Hey Alex,

Ive done exactly what you suggested with no luck. I think it fixed my issue for the main category section but not the categories within the sidebar. 

I took a screenshot to show you what I mean. Those categories are still being merged from both blogs. 

http://www.screencast.com/t/fBUoVWZS2m

Thanks, Nick

@Nick, I'm assuming that you have multiple blogs, meaning multiple articulate root nodes right? (i.e. multiple archives under a single root is not supported right now: https://github.com/Shazwazza/Articulate/issues/9 )

I think you may have found an issue that might be 'easily' fixed and that is to only show categories for a blog archive that has posts tagged against that category in that blog archive. I'll create an issue for it and test.

Also note that there is currently no real way of separating out tags/categories between multiple articulate roots, this is something that will need to be fixed and to do that correctly will need to be done with custom 'tag groups'. For example, the Articulate Categories and Articulate Tags data type has a pre-value set that can adjust the tag group, currently this is: "ArticulateTags" and "ArticulateCategories" but these cannot change since those strings are hard coded to articulate's core.

So there's two things that need to be done moving forward:

• Only render categories for a blog archive where there are actually articles tagged against a category
• Be able to specify the tag group for an archive's tags/categories

https://github.com/Shazwazza/Articulate/issues/75

This is probably related. I chanced upon this issue and it goes like this.

Basically, I've got a function that uses the GetAllCategories method to render an active category list. This function is used for category filtering.

I have a post which previously had a Category tag named "News". I've decided that this should be a Tag instead of Category, so, I've removed the "News" Category and added "News" to the tag field instead.

Now, my function still renders the "News" category when it shouldn't.

I can't work out what is wrong but my guess is that because a previous relationship exists between the post and the CategoryTag. So, there exists two relationships, the tag to the post and the category to the post.

Is this a bug or has anyone encountered this? One more important thing to note is, there is no other posts with the "News" category if one should question.

Is there a way to fix this? I would appreciate any help.

Cheers,

I've managed to fix my issue using the Tag Manager

However, I'm sure there's a better way to fix this.

Yes, did you read the issue link posted above ? Also, there's an issue in the Umbraco Core (or at least there was) where tags would still show up if you had things tagged in the recycle bin, so be sure to empty that too.

I am running into the same issue. I have multiple articulate blogs (one archive under one blog) and when I am rendering categories for a particular blog, the categories from all other blogs are getting displayed.

I am using articulate 1.0.9 Please let me know if this fixed or if I can work around this problem. Thanks!!

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