Faceted browse & Navigation: Must create separate page (cannot link to page-category?)

Omeka S
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I’ve created a faceted browse page with several categories: Beautiful!

On “Pages”, I can add “faceted browse preview” and select a “page category”: Beautiful!

BUT: On navigation, I can only select a whole faceted browse page. Not a category.

Now I’ve recreated each category from my facet-page as duplicate to allow linking to it in the site navigation.

Is there a better way to do this?
Or is there a reason why the facet-browse page module can address categories, but navigation cannot?

Thanks for suggestions and insights :slight_smile:

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I had the same issue and achieved it this way, but I’d love to know if there’s something easier:

In Navigation, add a Custom URL.

You will need the faceted browse page id number at the end of the page URL:
https://[your-site]/s/[site-slug]/faceted-browse/#

And the category id number, you can find this way:
view-source:https://[your-site]/s/[site-slug]/faceted-browse/#/categories

URL construction:
https://[your-site]/s/[site-slug]/faceted-browse/[faceted-browse-id]#/ plus this URL-encoded JSON:

{"categoryId":14,“sortBy”:null,“sortOrder”:null,“page”:null,“facetStates”:{},“facetQueries”:{}}

(and you need all of the JSON even if null, default values)

So finished URL looks like this:
https://[your-site]/s/[site-slug]/faceted-browse/4#%7B%22categoryId%22%3A14%2C%22sortBy%22%3Anull%2C%22sortOrder%22%3Anull%2C%22page%22%3Anull%2C%22facetStates%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22facetQueries%22%3A%7B%7D%7D

If all that looks scary, you can just swap out the two bolded numbers for your site.

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Interesting workaround!
Thanks for sharing.