Showing categories in structure navigation

Question

I have a site that has a parent channel as a main nav item. It has entries that are categorized.

Is it possible to have the parent channel in the main nav and it's categories as children using structure?

Answer 1

Structure and categories work best when used with Zoo Triggers. for what i know, ZT has been aquired by eeharbor, and they are currently working ZT into Structure.What i normally do for the nav is something like

{if segment_1 == 'parent_channel'}
    {exp:channel:categories}<li><a href="/{segment_1}/{category_name}">{category_name}</a></li>
{if:else}
    {exp:structure:nav}
{/if}

I normally also set Freebie to have EE ignore all segments after my parent_channel, so i don't need a category trigger word. In my Structure template i normally use Switchee to display the correct entries