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I have a template that shows entries based on categories. I’d like to have the category description appear regardless of whether there are any entries or not. I can’t manage to get it to work. I tried:

{exp:channel:entries channel="membership" author_id="CURRENT_USER" status="not closed" limit="1"}
{category_description}
{if no_results}
There are no postings for this phase at this time.
{/if}
Here is a list of postings for this phase of your project, starting with the first posting. Click on the entries to review the information and leave comments.
{/exp:channel:entries}

All this does is write out “{category_description}”. What am I missing?

Thanks

You need your description field to be within the {categories} looping pair for the channel:entries tags.

Or, use the Category Heading tag instead:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/category_heading.html

Thanks for the quick answer!

Hey pmerritt,

I am glad to see that Mike was able to help you out!

If you need anything else, please just let us know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,