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Hello,

I would like output all the entries from a channel, but one category after another.

i.e :

cat 1 - entry 1
cat 1 - entry 2
cat 2 - entry 1
cat 2 - entry 2
cat 2 - entry 3

etc..

Is there any way to do that without performing several channel entries loops ?

Cheers,
L.

Category Archives would get you there, but only if all you need is the title of the entry - custom fields are unavailable in that particular loop.

Hello John,

Alas I need the custom fields.
I hope there is another solution.

Cheers.

Not natively without going with an entries loop inside each category (this can be dynamic - there’s an example in the comments in the docs).  If you’re using various caching options, it’s not too bad, unless you have a large number of categories.  To do it more efficiently, I think you’d have to use PHP in your templates.  I know it’s a question that has been asked in the forums before, so if you’re lucky there may be a code example in the responses somewhere, if you’re able to find the right post.

Ok, I’ll do it with jQuery on front end…

Hi Laureent,

I think, it’s possible by creating a custom field that hold the category id assigned to that entry.

As in EE more than one categories can be assigned to an entry but here in your case, it seems that channel entries will have only one category so the custom field will contain a number (category id) and this custom field name can be passed into orderby parameter of channel tag.

In this way your requirement can be fulfilled. you can think that it can be a manually process of updating checked category id into custom field. But it can be done with extension hook automatically.

I hope it would help you.

Best Regards,

Hello Bhashkar,

The work is done already, but your idea looks interesting, I’ll keep that in mind.

Cheers