Hi

I tried searching for this but did not find anything useful. I just ran into a problem i never had before or at least did not notice.

Let’s say i have this simple code somewhere in a template:

Consulting the documentation, this should only show categories for entries in “some_weblog” with the status “open”.

I have added a custom status “draft” for entries being drafted up (obviously) but the problem is, categories for such entries are still showing up.

Am I doing something wrong?

The way I read it, it will show all categories containing (also) entries of the “open” status. Is that not what you are seeing?

Hm, so if i wanted to “exclude” categories for entries with status “draft” i would write:

?

Because this does not work either.

I am still a bit unclear about what you are trying to achieve. How many categories do you have? And how many have no postings with a status of “draft” at all? Because these would be the ones that get displayed.

I would like to display only those category names that are associated with entries with the status “open”.

I have some entries with the status “draft” and i don’t want their categories to show up in the listing, the status parameter does not seem to behave as it should.

EDIT: got it working! you need to add show_empty=“no” for the status parameter to work properly. Simply specifying status=“open” will also display entries with other statuses, e.g. draft, as long as you don’t add this - i guess for EE internally, all entries that don’t equal the status specified are handled as “empty”.

shows entries with status “draft” for example.

only shows categories associated with entries with status “open”.

Maybe this could be clarified better in the docs.

Regards,
Peter.

peschehimself - 15 May 2008 02:09 PM

EDIT: got it working! you need to add show_empty=“no” for the status parameter to work properly.

Thanks for letting us know, and glad you’re all set.

Closing, too.