Yah ok after my first silly blog, I'd say it's about time to get to serious business now.

Just yesterday I finished implementing the backend stuff so that our profile can link to product categories. The idea here is that we want to be able to relate a profile with several product categories and so we would be able to display products on a profile page. As always, we would need to do little coding using liquid on the CMS page. If you are new to our system please feel free to browse around our wiki, just click here. Hopefully I would have updated our documentation when you read this post.

So to grab the collection of product categories of a ProfileDrop you need to just call ProductDrop#product_categories and that's about it. The method will return a collection of ProductCategoryDrop and then... because I'm too lazy to explain it to you I'll just give you a link to our ProductCategoryDrop documentation and you can look it up by yourself =p BTW don't forget that we have a ProductDrop as well, here is the link to the ProductDrop documentation. Calling ProductCategoryDrop#products will return a collection of ProductDrop objects.

There is a special controller I created to add and remove relation between a profile and a product category. I called it "ProductCatalogsController", the routing is "/admin/product_catalogs/:action_name"
To add a relation you would need to send a "POST" request to "/admin/product_catalogs/add" along with an "id" parameter. The "id" parameter here would be the id of a product category.
To remove a relation one would need to send a "POST" request to "/admin/product_catalogs/remove" along with an "id" parameter which again is the id of a product category and a "_method" parameter with value as "DELETE".

Where is the profile id you asked? Well... I can't have you adding/removing product categories to other people profiles, can I? So the answer to that question is... you won't need to specify any profile id since you can only add/remove product categories to the profile that you are currently logged in on.

Enjoy this new feature for all our CMS users out there!