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title: SC Category Page widget
description: Lists the catalog items available within a certain category. Categories are determined within the Service Catalog module. You can use this base system widget as-is in your portal or clone it to suit your own business needs.
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topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# SC Category Page widget

Lists the catalog items available within a certain category. Categories are determined within the Service Catalog module. You can use this base system widget as-is in your portal or clone it to suit your own business needs.

**Note:** Catalog items are sorted in ascending order by their **Order** value. If catalog items have the same order, they are sorted by the **Name** field.

\[Omitted image "WidgetSCCategoryPage.png"\] Alt text: Service Catalog Category page widget

## Instance options

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Field

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Description

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Click event name

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The name of the event that is emitted when a user clicks a catalog item.You can override the default behavior when clicking on a catalog item by providing a different event name. This would be in a situation where you embedded the category page in another widget.

The default value is `$sp.cat_item_list.click`.

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Number of items to display per page

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Number of items to display in the category page.**Note:** When defining the number of items to be displayed, consider the item data such as images and long descriptions. A large number may slow down the page performance.

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Show items from Child Categories

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Displays items in the child categories along with those in the parent category.**Note:** If the **Category Layout** instance options is set to `Flat` in the SC Categories widget, then set this instance option to `False`.

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