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I’m having trouble getting my category-based content to appear. I have a product page that displays one entry, like a single book or DVD. On this product page I have a series of conditional statements under the product images and description:

{if '{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}' == 'books'}
           {embed="includes/details_books"} 
              {/if} 

 {if '{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}' == 'audiobooks'}
           {embed="includes/details_audiobooks"} 
              {/if}

There are several more of these statements, one for each category (books, dvds, etc.) in the “products” channel.

This product template accurately displayed the embedded category content until I added another level of subcategories. Now, instead of only having books, dvds, etc., I have Books - Foundation Series, Books - Discipleship Series, etc.

The statements no longer display the category-specific content.

I tried replacing the ‘books’ in the statement with ‘books_foundation_series’, which is a sub-category name, but it doesn’t seem to display the embedded content.

Any ideas on how to display the content based on the parent category, even though the product is also in a lower sub-category?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

~Sarah

You might consider using the parent_id instead of the url title.  Or, another thing to try would be adding limit=“1” to the categories tag.

Thank you for responding! I tried both of your suggestions. However, they seemed to make no difference. The content still does not appear if the item is in a sub-category.

Sorry about that, I was just guessing at what might help.  I can’t test your exact situation, but when I fooled around with using limit=1 it seemed to do what I expected.

Have you tried running a test template and seeing what is being output?

Another approach would be a plugin, but I don’t have the reference handy.

Kernon, you will now know that I am a true novice with ExpressionEngine. I was still trying to use the category name with the parent id:

{if '{categories}{parent_id}{/categories}' == 'books'}

That’s why it wasn’t working. I switched it to the actual id #, instead of ‘books’, and it worked.

Thank you for your help!