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This sounds really simple yet for some reason I’ve never come across doing something like this before.. and yet have run into a problem.

Client has a list of downloadable files that are either PDF or EXCEL files.. these are then categorised so that they are easy enough to find. I want to show a page which contains these downloads, listed within their categories.. so i thought Category_archive would work great… which it does up to the point that the custom field that contains the location of the download file doesn’t seem to work within the

{entry_titles} tags… is this possible or have i done this a completely stupid way.. thought it would work great at first… hmmm

{exp:channel:category_archive channel="downloads" style="linear" show_empty="no" }                
    {categories}
    <h4>{category_name}</h4>
<p>        {if category_description}{category_description}{/if}<br />
    {/categories}<br />
    {entry_titles}<br />
        <li><a href="http://{downloads-file}">{title}</a></li><br />
    {/entry_titles}<br />
{/exp:channel:category_archive}

Yes, unfortunately you can’t access your custom fields within the entry titles loop.  It’s just for titles.  Here’s what you would want to use (or something like it):

{exp:channel:category_archive channel="downloads" show_empty="no"}
    {categories}
            <h4>{category_name}</h4>
<p>             {if category_description}{category_description}{/if}<br />
                                        <br />
        {exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" category="{category_id}"}<br />
            {if count == "1"}<ul>{/if}<br />
            <li><a href="http://{download-file}">{title}</a></li><br />
            {if count == total_results}</ul>{/if}<br />
        {/exp:channel:entries}</p>

<p>    {/categories}<br />
{/exp:channel:category_archive}

Hope that helps you out.

Hi there…yes that makes sense and is pretty much what i ended up with in the end to be honest.. but thanks, good to know ive gone the right way.

Many thanks
B.