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I have a channel with various category groups. It is a multi-entry page. I would like, for each entry, to show what category/categories are assigned to each category group that exists for this channel.

Here’s my EE channel tag and the code inside:

{exp:channel:entries channel="classes" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="no" sort="desc"}
{title}

{event_description}
<span>Level:</span>

<span>Audience:</span>

<span>Format:</span>

<span>Focus/Specialization:</span>

{/exp:channel:entries}

Level, audience, format, and focus are my 4 category groups. I want to show after those cat group names the actual categories that are assigned to each entry. How? Thanks.

Hi Rory,

You should be able to do that easily with this plugin:
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/gwcode-categories/

Your code would then look something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="classes" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="no" sort="desc"}
{title}

{event_description}
{exp:gwcode_categories entry_id="{entry_id}"}
    {group_heading}<span>{group_name}</span>
{/group_heading}
    {cat_name}
{/exp:gwcode_categories}
{/exp:channel:entries}

This should work as well (linear list of categories instead of nested):

{exp:channel:entries channel="classes" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="no" sort="desc"}
{title}

{event_description}
{exp:gwcode_categories entry_id="{entry_id}" style="linear"}
    {group_heading}
<span>{group_name}</span>
{/group_heading}
    {cat_name}

{/exp:gwcode_categories}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Let me know if that helps!

Cheers,
Leon

Looks interesting. I will check out this add-on. But before I do, I must ask, is there no way to do it without an add-on?

Not that I know of.
You will get close with something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="classes" show_future_entries="yes" show_expired="no" sort="desc"}
{title}

{event_description}
    {categories}
        {category_name}
    {/categories}
{/exp:channel:entries}

It will list all the categories, but I don’t think there’s a way to group them and show the category group name, there’s no {group_name} variable or something like that:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/variable_pairs.html#var_categories

Cheers,
Leon

I see what you mean. I think I’ll try the add-on! Thanks for the help.

Thanks for stepping in 😊 Please post again in case there’s anything else.