I tried to use the following code:

But category 117 is not showing.

I verified that it’s a category from the category group associated with the weblog.

Please help.

Thanks

It should work.  Try dropping the show parameter- do all the cats show then- including 117?

This works like a charm, all categories are shown.

Hm- well, I’ll go test it and see if I can replicate.  Are you on the latest build/version?

EE 1.4.2 Build 20060620

Hm- it’s working dead ok on mine:

Test page.  Um….  Crud.  I’m rather out of ideas- pretty sure there is no check on whether there are entries or not.  By default, it shouldn’t check, though you could add show_empty=“yes” just to double check.  But you really shouldn’t have to.

You’re absolutely sure the cat id is correct?  It’s what you see when you hover over the link in the Cx?

I tried other categories and was now able to show root level categories only, but I want to be able to show child categories too:

-A   [C1]
—-a1 [C2]
—-a2 [C3]
-B   [C4]
—-b1 [C5]
—-b2 [C6]

OR

I found this in the manual now:

Note: If you specify that a parent category is not shown, then any children of that parent category are then unable to be shown by the tag. The parent category is required for any and all children categories.

So this is the reason for this.
Hm maybe it could be accomplished with the query module and a custom query?

Hm- edited- not buggy

Blarg- anyway, point is, it looks like in order to show id 2 in the above example, you also need to include its parent.  So- try it with show=“1|2” and it should work to show both.  But if you don’t include the parent in there, the child doesn’t show either.  Also- ditch the C’s in the parameter.

There is some logic in requiring that the parent be shown- particularly with style nested- which is the default.  It’s the same reason that when you use show empty- it will show empty parents, as long as they are parents of a subcat either entries.  If it doesn’t work like that, the whole nesting bit gets completely buggered.

ETA- checked the docs, it does say:

Note: If you specify that a parent category is not shown, then any children of that parent category are then unable to be shown by the tag. The parent category is required for any and all children categories.

So basically, not specifying the parent in the show is pretty much the equivalently of saying ‘NOT’ the parent- hence the results you see.

Thanks.