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{exp:channel:categories channel="documents" show="3" dynamic="off" style="nested" disable="trackbacks|member_data"}

This only shows the name of the parent category.  Adding “parent_only=‘no’” does not change behavior.

Let’s narrow things down a bit, you’ve got some non-standard parameters in there.  For testing- go with:

{exp:channel:categories channel="documents" show="3"}

Now- this will only show category id 3- if it’s nested and cat id 3 is a child?  Add in the id(s) of its parents as well.  Doing that- I get the expected results.  If you don’t- is it possible to either link or paste to the results you get using the following:

{exp:channel:categories channel="documents" show="3"} 
{category_id} - {category_name}
{/exp:channel:categories}

Robin -

In my example, category ‘3’ is a parent.  It has 8 child categories.  Using your suggestion, the following is generated:

3 - Personnel Policies

Do I have to explicitly include cat IDs for the child categories?  I thought this was the purpose of ‘parent_only=“no”’.

In a test, I included several child categories in the list.  By default, the parent and child cats displayed.  When I set ‘parent_only=“yes”’, only the parent cat displayed.

Unless I am missing something, it seems that this is not working the way it’s intended.

Do I have to explicitly include cat IDs for the child categories?

Right- the show parameter is pretty specific- it exactly specifies the ids/cats to include- if a category isn’t included in the show?  It’s not going to be included.  (Other parameters may ‘cull’ from this list, but the list encompasses all cats that might be included.)

I believe there are a few third party plugins that do more what you have in mind, but I don’t believe they’ve been converted yet.

OK.  Thanks for clearing this up for me, Robin.

No problem.  (And I wrote one of the 1.x plugins that work more inline with what you were thinking- I’ll get a 2.x version out as soon as some time frees up!)