How do I filter blog posts in a repeater via button click for different Blog categories?

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Question:
So, I’ve been told to design a wix blog age that displays posts in a repeater and be able to change the category of those listed posts via buttons. Why a repeater? Because one can’t design the blog post list as freely as a repeater.

I’ve not been able to figure out a code that works to switch the category of the posts… when I try, I get a:

  1. “error: WDE 0080: Validation failed”
  2. Nothing happens
  3. the entire repeater disappears with no error in the console.

Any help?

Product:
WIX editor, in developer mode

I’ve included a snippet of the section in question. There are 5 categories all of which are to show 3 posts per category.I’ve included a snippet of the section in question. There are 5 categories all of which are to show 3 posts per category.

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NOTE: I unlinked the image and title for privacy reasons. ALSO you see the “Articles” category written on the 1st post, that’s because it is under both Featured and Articles categories NOTE: I unlinked the image and title for privacy reasons. ALSO you see the “Articles” category written on the 1st post, that’s because it is under both Featured and Articles categories

attempted
I even tried to use ChatGPT as a saw no similar situations when googled.

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What is the code you tried?

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forms on this worked the best, Basically I used several forms of this

    // Add an event handler for the button click
    $w('#switchDatasetButton').onClick(() => {
        // Get the IDs of both datasets
        const currentDatasetId = $w('#repeater').dataSetId;
        const newDatasetId = 'newDatasetId'; // Replace 'newDatasetId' with the ID of the dataset you want to switch to

        // Switch the dataset connected to the repeater
        $w('#repeater').dataSetId = newDatasetId;

        // Refresh the repeater to update the displayed data
        $w('#repeater').refresh();
    });
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I am going re-word your question because I think I know what you are trying to do now.

Your question is: How do I filter blog posts in a repeater via button click for different Blog categories?

This is how you find posts in a category: queryPosts - Velo API Reference - Wix.com

The link above should point you in the right direction.

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ohhh, queryPosts, not queryCategories? I’ll look into that!
Muhc apreciated

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If you query the category it will only ever give you 1 result because only 1 category will match.