How to get Portal's catalog in Server Script

[j3ssicav]

Hopefully this is quick and easy!

I am trying to update the breadcrumbs on my portal to get the portal's catalog and not just the first catalog attached to a catalog item (some items are in multiple catalogs).

How do I access this data in a script? I tried $sp.getParameter('catalog') and it didn't work. I am having trouble finding documentation on possible parameters and other get methods for the portal.

[j3ssicav]

This looks great. I was hoping there was some magical shortcut method like $sp.getCatalog that I just wasn't aware of lol. I suppose a query will do. 

I'll let you know how it works!

[j3ssicav · Accepted solution]

Here is what I got to work!!! Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction

Server script- 

//current catalog item
	data.sc_cat_item = $sp.getCatalogItem(data.sys_id, true);
	//get the default catalog from the portal via query
	var portalGr = $sp.getPortalRecord().getUniqueValue();//sysId of current portal
	var portalcataloggr = new GlideRecord("m2m_sp_portal_catalog");//table which stores portal catalog relation
     portalcataloggr.addEncodedQuery('sp_portal.sys_idSTARTSWITH'+ portalGr +'^active=true');
     portalcataloggr.query();
	//set the name and url for the catalog 
    if (portalcataloggr.next()) {
				data.catalog = {
				  name : portalcataloggr.getDisplayValue('sc_catalog'),
					//SPECIFIY CATALOG HOMEPAGE HERE
				  url: 'it_sc_category'}

		}
	//get the current category for the item based on the current catalog
	//var catalog = portalcataloggr.sc_catalog;
	var categorygr = new GlideRecord('sc_cat_item_category');
	categorygr.addEncodedQuery('sc_cat_item='+ data.sc_cat_item.sys_id + '^sc_category.sc_catalog=' +  portalcataloggr.sc_catalog );
	categorygr.query();
	 if(categorygr.next()){
		data.category = {
			name: categorygr.getDisplayValue('sc_category'),
			url: '?id=sc_category&sys_id=' + categorygr.sc_category
		}

	 }

client controller- 

// Breadcrumbs
	if ($scope.data.sc_cat_item) {
		var bc = [{label: $scope.data.catalog.name, url: '?id=' + $scope.data.catalog.url}];
		if ($scope.data.category)
			bc[bc.length] = {label: $scope.data.category.name, url: $scope.data.category.url};

		bc[bc.length] = {label: $scope.data.sc_cat_item.name, url: '#'};
		$rootScope.$broadcast('sp.update.breadcrumbs', bc);
		spUtil.setSearchPage('sc');
	}