Seperating links in page template

[jontaco]

I need to be able to separate a list of page links into 2 separate drop-down boxes. The first list is just called "Categories", the second list is "Years". Here you can see my 2 drop down boxes:
http://mulberrystreetgifts.com/store/boyds/NEW_accessories.php

The problem is that all these page links have been added to 1 page in the SS back office.
If you look closely, you will notice that both drop down boxes loop through all of the page links, but clearly one set of links is named by category (i.e. Accessories...Treasure Boxes), while the other set is named by Year (2006...2012)

Is there any way to divide this 1 list of page links into 2 separate drop down boxes?

If it helps, here is what the page template looks like:

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[-- DEFINE LINK_TO_PAGE --]
       <!-- Output option HTML tag. The function menu_goto() adds base url -->
        <option value="/[-- Page.FileName --]">[-- PAGE.Name --]</option>
[-- END_DEFINE LINK_TO_PAGE --]

[-- DEFINE PAGE --]

...

<form action="dummyvalue1">
Category:<br>
<select name="newurl" onChange="menu_goto(this.form)" id="search_field1" class="search"/>
<option value="" selected="selected">- Select a Category-</option>
[-- INCLUDE link-loop.php PROCESS --]
</select>
</form>

<form action="dummyvalue2">
Year:<br>
<select name="newurl" onChange="menu_goto(this.form)" id="search_field1" class="search"/>
<option value="" selected="selected">- Select a Year-</option>
[-- INCLUDE link-loop.php PROCESS --]
</select>
</form>           

...

Product loop goes here

[-- END_DEFINE PAGE --]


[robm]

We have a tutorial on this very feature, putting page links in different dropdown boxes. Reference:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewtopic.php?t=348

Rob

[Jim]

Use some field, such as one of the extra page fields, to indicate whether a page is a "Categories" or a "Years" page.

Then in your page template have two separate sections and loop through the links in each section checking page.fieldX to see if it is what you want to output. If the page.fieldx is Categories and you are in the Categories section then output the html for that link otherwise don't do anything. Same for the Years section, loop through the links and if the page.fields is Years output the html for the link otherwise don't output anything.

[jontaco]

This worked perfectly! Thanks!