Nested taxonomy workaround?

[stephenmeehanuk]

Hi,

I've got a collection of products that would benefit from taxonomy nesting, but that doesn't exist in 3.3.12.

• I understand a possible workaround is to use a second collection, collection:categories to replace taxonomies altogether.
• The idea is to use an entries_field that uses collection:categories in the collection:products blueprint

On categories/index this is used to show a nested list of 'categories'

   <ul>
      {{ nav:collection:categories }}
        <li>
            <a href="{{ route name="cat.show" :slug="slug" }}">{{ title }}</a>
               {{ if children }}
                  <ul>{{ *recursive children* }}</ul>
               {{ /if }}
         </li>
      {{ /nav:collection:categories }}
  </ul>

The problem

• this is on categories/show
• cat_entries_field is the name of collection:categories entries field
• The code below shows every entry that uses cat_entries_field
• I'm trying to filter collection:products by the slug

    {{ collection:products as="entries"}}
           <ul> 
              {{ entries }}
                  {{ if cat_entries_field }}
                      <li><a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a></li>
                  {{ /if }}
              {{ /entries }}
          </ul>                
      {{ /collection:products }}

[ryanmitchell]

{{ collection:products as="entries" :cat_entries_field:contains="page:id" }}