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Hi,

I’ve been having a tough time getting the categories tag to behave the way I need it to.  Basically, I want to show an intro in my template with the current category I am in, regardless of whether that category has a parent or not. 

After the category I show the entries for that category.

However, it seems as though the parent id is obligatory in the “show=id” parameter, so I must show the parent as well?

Am I missing something? 

It seems like it should be a pretty straightforward to just grab a child category by its ID.  The only way I’ve been able to achieve this is by doing something like the following:

{exp:query sql="SELECT parent_id,cat_id FROM exp_categories WHERE cat_url_title = '{segment_4}'"}

    {!-- if the category has a parent, show the parent and the child --}
    {if parent_id != "0"}
    
        {exp:channel:categories channel="{channel_name}" show="{parent_id}|{cat_id}" style="linear"}
            {category_name_{lang_code}}
        {/exp:channel:categories}
    
    {!-- otherwise we are on a regular top level category --}
    {if:else}
    
    {exp:channel:categories channel="{channel_name}" show="{cat_id}" style="linear"}
        {category_name_{lang_code}}
    {/exp:channel:categories}
    
    {/if}
    
{/exp:query}

This kind of works, I get back the parent and the child.  But it would be nice to just be able to show a child category without having to also show its parent.

mprzybyla,

Basically, I want to show an intro in my template with the current category I am in, regardless of whether that category has a parent or not.

How would the category:heading tag not work in this instance using the category description as an intro?

{exp:channel:category_heading channel="{channel_name}"}

<h1>{category_name}</h1>

{if category_description}
{category_description}
{/if}

{/exp:channel:category_heading}