[TYPO3-dev] Need some pointers for site configuration

[Bram Vandenbussche]

Ok, so what I'm about to ask may already be answered in the thousands of 
posts that are already in here, but searching for this is not that obvious.

What I'm trying to do is pretty basic when you look at it from a 
developers perspective (which is me) but it has got me in the blue when 
it comes to typo3 configuration. Let me sketch the situation:

I've got a typo3 install with a few sites running in it. Among those 
sites are numerous "portfolio" sites. I'm using the DAM extension to 
manage all of the images into categories and such. (about 3 levels of 
categories in all I think).

Each site contains a page called "Portfolio" or "Gallery" or something 
like that. When this page is loaded, I would like to display a menu (ul) 
with the first level of categories for that site. When you click on one, 
it opens the subcategories on the next line, and this goes on, until 
there are no more subcategories. When you click on an endpoint (category 
with no subcategories) it should load the same page, but this time 
enables the SmoothGallery component (which is capable of showing a set 
of images for a given DAM category) which then shows the images for the 
given category.

Like I said, this is fairly easy if you're working as a developer but 
I'm clueless as of how to implement this in Typo3. This is pretty 
standard behaviour I think, so somebody must have done this before.

I'm stuck trying to show the menu of categories on a single page and I 
have no idea how I have to pass the category ID's to the SmoothGallery 
component.

Anyone has any practical help? I'm not sure under wich group this falls 
so I'm just posting it here, if it needs to be directed somewhere else, 
just let me know.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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