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I have issues with some categories that are just been displayed in French and show the content as empty, I am fairly new wth EE and need help.

Hi, New user.

See EEDocs:// Categories show_empty parameter

If you use show_empty=“no”, then the empty categories won’t show.

Does that help?

Maybe, Can you plesae tell me where this parameter will be? is it a configuration that can be done from the CP of EE or woudl it be in the php templates?

Again I am a new user to EE 😊

Thanks

It goes in the web categories tag:

{exp:weblog:categories show_empty="no"}

Thanks for the assist, Kernon.

Does that help, New user?

Hi there,

I did a search throught all templates for weblog:categories show_empty and I was not able to see anything returned from that search.

Thanks

Well, I believe that Sue was suggesting you would ADD the parameter to the existing code, NOT that the parameter was causing your existing problem.

Perhaps you can explain better what is happening versus what you want to happen?

ADDED:

By the way, by default, empty categories are shown, so, in other words, you won’t necessarily find show_empty in your existing templates.  You’ll have to ADD it if you want to turn off the default.

All categories displaying under About Continuing Care >> Media Room
1. Comuniqués de presse
2. événements
3. Articles et histoires

http://69.27.123.243/Array/about-bruyere-continuing-care/media-room/communiques-de-presse

Thanks

For the template that shows that page (*), have you looked for the exp:weblog:categories tag?  You need to find the categories tag that is showing the content in question, and then ADD the show_empty=“no” parameter as shown above.

(* - that URL is password protected)

Sorry for the password protected URL please try again now. Something strange happening with some categories.

If you looking teh site in English and click on one of themenu item it should format the link like this
http://69.27.123.243/en/about-bruyere-continuing-care/bruyere-volunteers/benefits-of-
volunteering

/en/ means English. The corresponding link in French is http://69.27.123.243/fr/a-propos-de-soins-continus-bruyere/le-benevolat-a-bruyere/les-bienfaits-du-benevolat-a-bruyere

However with the one that are not working the link beeing displayed is
with an /Array/ within the link
http://69.27.123.243/Array/about-bruyere-continuing-care/media-room/communiques-de-presse

Yes I did search on that tag and the only result that I got is
// set homepage meta description
      $this_parent_cat_description = ‘{exp:weblog:categories show="89" style="linear" limit="1" disable="member_data|pagination" cache="yes" refresh="30"}{exp:html_strip}{category_description'.$tag_suffix.'}{/exp:html_strip}{/exp:weblog:categories}’;

Hopefully, this won’t come across as rude, but I’m not sure how anyone can help you without understanding the context far better.

For example, I have no idea what is the significance of the “Array” in your URL—- does this represent some development area, perhaps were you are rebuilding an existing site with EE?

Second, based on a limited amount of poking around, I am now guessing that the actual problem isn’t that you have empty categories displaying, but rather, you have (perhaps) a category-based link that should have content (entries) associated with it, but when clicked, doesn’t show the content.  That is quite a different problem.  There are a large number of things that might be causing it—I don’t know where to begin.  To take just one example, if this is an EE site that someone else built, possibly the content is being filtered based on URL segments, and the existence of the “Array” is throwing everything off.  (That’s just an example!)

Hi there,

I understand your frustration, believe me I am feeling the same. That website was developped by an external company that my organisation hired. To make a short story the relation was not good, the website then was given to me with no support, no training of php or EE.

How can I get help then?

Thanks

Yes, that certainly sounds like a bad situation!  😖

Is it just this one thing that is not working, or are there are large number of things that need to be fixed?  If the former, then you might still be able to get it solved through forum support.

If you have a large number of things to fix (or enhance, etc.), then the your options depend upon how much time you have, and whether you are a paid consultant or a staff member, what budget is available, and whether you have the time to learn EE.

I am a staff member, at this point I was able to fix a few issues. There are another one issue but not that important. This one is important because that issue appear to be in more then one place.

This is another example http://69.27.123.243/Array/about-bruyere-continuing-care/board-of-directors where it should be http://69.27.123.243/en/about-bruyere-continuing-care/board-of-directors

Our oragnisation does NOT have a big budget and we suppose to go live in 2 weeks.

Where and how can I get help? I am really desasperate to have this working :(

Thanks

What does “Array” mean in this context? Is that just some sort of test area?

EE does have a Job Board.  I haven’t used it myself, as I am a non-paid consultant.