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Introduction

This tutorial shows how to use Velocity code on your catalog to create a item level navigation / menu based on a catalog group for Products.  This velocity code example is intended to be used with the Catalog templates:

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Sample Code

Code Block
themeDJango
titleSample Code
#set($levelOnes = $group.getGroup('/products/').children)
  $formatHelper.sortByAttribute($levelOnes, 'sort_order', false)
    
	<div class="sidebar">
      <h3><a href="$baseUrl/products/">Products</a></h3>
      <ul>
        #foreach($levelOne in $levelOnes)
          <li><a href="$baseUrl$levelOne.path">$escape.html($levelOne.title)</a></li>
        #end
      </ul>
    </div>

Break Down

Now let's break down what each block is doing.

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