Rendering MultiTV Category Links for SEO Landing Pages

The donor behind this article described a very practical catalog task: category pages needed a curated set of SEO landing links at the top, and editors wanted to choose those links in the manager instead of hard-coding them in templates.

MultiTV turned out to be the right storage layer. The setup used a dropdown field populated from site_content, allowing editors to pick the pages that should appear as linked “tag” pages for a given category.

'elements' => '@SELECT pagetitle, id FROM [+PREFIX+]site_content WHERE parent=17 and published=1 and deleted=0'

The remaining task was simple in principle: treat the stored value as a document ID, then render it back out as a real link instead of a raw number.

Why this pattern is useful

• Editors control the visible landing links per category.
• SEO landing pages stay centrally managed as normal resources.
• The category template only needs to render a structured list of selected IDs.

That makes this a good legacy guide, because it preserves a reusable editorial pattern instead of just a one-off code answer.