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Hi,

I’m pretty experienced with EE but I haven’t used the categories tag too often.

I’ve got a category group with three parent categories each of which has approx. 5 subcategories. The page has a drop-down ‘jump menu’ which reloads the same template and dynamically pulls out entries from the selected subcategory.

All is working fine except the {category_name} tag which displays both the parent category as well as the subcategory. I only want it to display the subcategory title for use as a header (the parent categories don’t have any entries - they are just titles)

The code I’m using to display the title of the selected subcategory is:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="resources" dynamic="on" limit="1"}
<h3>{categories}{category_name}{/categories}</h3>
<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

The {category_name} tag generates this:

Teams & StaffConferences, Meetings & Events

‘Teams & Staff’ is the title of the parent category and ‘Conferences, Meetings & Events’ is the title of the subcategory currently being viewed. What I want is for the {category_name} tag to simply output the subcategory title - ‘Conferences, Meetings & Events’

The test page can be viewed at

http://www.glasgowservicewithstyle.com/index.php/teams-staff/support-new/

The ‘jump menu’ is in the right column.

Any advice appreciated,

Darrell

Hi Darrell,

I’m going to move this over to How-to as this is the intended behavior. You might consider the following thread, and hopefully you’ll get some more info in this forum.

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/52259/

Hi Darrel,

Since you’re never gonna use the parent categories, wouldn’t it be easier to create 2 category groups? One called Teams & Staff and other called ‘Lorem ipsum’. You can easily add your 5 subcategories to those groups and be done with it as I don’t think there is a way to hide the parent category in the {categories} tag.

Greetz,
Wouter

Brandon, Wouter,

Thanks for the advice. I split the categories into multiple groups and it works fine now.

Darrell

Always glad to help.

Greetz,
Wouter