Can't add layered navigation block into CMS page

Question

I need to show new products on a CMS page. It works fine. Then I need to add the layered navigation block on the left to filter out the selection. But it never works. I add this code into the Layout Update XML field:

<reference name="left">
  <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"></block>
</reference>

I tried with block type core/template, but it still doesn't work. Does anyone know why it never works?

Answer 1

you can not call layer navigation using this type of code.For layer navigation on cms yo u need a category or if you do not have category then put root category id,whose id 2(Default category) here details of link

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21241181/cms-page-with-layered-navigation-not-working/21242296#21242296https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21241181/cms-page-with