Non Dynamic Channel Entry Not showing up on Category Pages

#1 / Jun 12, 2012 1:08pm
primeinc
11 posts
Hey this is probably me being stupid but I cant figure out whats causing the problem.

I have some category pages that end in the url segment “FishingReports/Report/C4”.

In each template I have an embedded header with a channel entry that allows the client to update store hours on every page.

The channel entry looks like this..
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="store_info" limit="1" dynamic="no"}
 <li> {street_address} Bozeman MT </li>
 <li> {406_phone_number}  ∗ {1800_number} </li>
 <li> Store Hours:    Mon-Sat: {monday_saturday_hours}     Sun: {sunday_hours}  </li> 
{/exp:channel:entries}
```
As you can see I have dynamic=“no” set and it works great on single entry permalinks but I dont know what to do for category pages.

Thanks for you help in advance.

Ben
Prime Inc
#2 / Jun 12, 2012 2:39pm

primeinc
11 posts

I am running EE version 2.5.0 just to clarify a little more…
#3 / Jun 13, 2012 1:31pm

Dan Decker
7338 posts

Hi primeinc,

Just so I’m clear, this is *not* working properly on your category templates?

There isn’t anything out of line in the code you’ve shown. Can you share the template that embeds this above code?

I need to see the overall context just to make sure there isn’t anything else that could influence this.

Cheers,
#4 / Jun 14, 2012 8:43am
clearbytes
4 posts
I’m also getting this problem.

This is the template .news-header:
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="content" entry_id="26" dynamic="no"}  
   {intro_textarea}
  {/exp:channel:entries}
```
This is the embed code:
```
{embed="beautygurus/.news-header"}
```
Any ideas?

Thanks

Simon

#5 / Jun 14, 2012 11:51am

primeinc

11 posts

Yes I am confirming that it is not working. I have tried to post the template but it is too big to fit in a forum post and I get “file could not written to disk” errors when trying to upload an html file fo the template.

The basic structure is this

{embed="Templates/.PageSource" pageTitle="Fishing Reports"}

<body>

{embed="Templates/.InsideHeaderNav" sectionTitle="Fishing Reports"}
  
  
<div id ="mainContent">
<div id="mainContentContainer">
 
 
 <div id="twoThirdColumn">
  {exp:channel:entries channel="fishing_report" limit="1"}
   <!-- Shows most recent entry for that category by entry date and has a ton of conditional variables based on the category shown in segment_3} -->
  {/exp:channel:entries}
 </div>
 
 <div id="oneThirdColumn">
 
  <span>
   {exp:channel:entries channel="fishing_report" limit="1"}
    <!-- Shows products related to the individual report -->
   {/exp:channel:entries}
  </span>
  
  <h2> Fishing Reports </h2>

<p>  <hr ><br />
  <br />
  <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MTTroutfitterFishingReports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">_   <a href="http://184.168.80.129/~troutfit/images/theme/rssLink.png">http://184.168.80.129/~troutfit/images/theme/rssLink.png</a>_  </a></p>

<p>  <br />
   Click on a river to view  <br />
 individual river reports.<br />
  </p>

<p>  <ul class="RiversNav"><br />
  <br />
   {exp:channel:categories channel="fishing_report" style="linear"}<br />
    <!-- Just a dynamic List of the Categories --><br />
   {/exp:channel:categories}</p>

<p> </div><br />
 <br />
 <br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
       <br />
{embed="Templates/.Footer"}<br />
  <br />
</body></p>

<p><br />
</html>

The channel entry that is not being shown is located in the

{embed="Templates/.PageSource" pageTitle="Fishing Reports"}

which looks like this

<div id="header">

 <div id="headerContainer">
 
  <a href="http://{site_url}"></a>
  
  <ul id="storeInfo">
   
   {exp:channel:entries channel="store_info" limit="1" dynamic="no"}
      <li> {street_address} Bozeman MT </li>
      <li> {406_phone_number}  ∗ {1800_number} </li>
      <li> Store Hours:    Mon-Sat: {monday_saturday_hours}     Sun: {sunday_hours}  </li> 
   {/exp:channel:entries}
   
           
  </ul>
  
  <div id="pagesearch">
   <div class="searchform">
    {exp:search:simple_form channel="blog|products|class|guide_trip|fishing_report" result_page="Search"}
     <input type="submit" class="formSearchSubmit"/>
     <input type="text" name="keywords" value="" class="formSearchInput" />
    {/exp:search:simple_form}
   </div>
  </div>
  
  
  {globalNav}
  
  <div class="clear"></div>
  
 </div>
 
</div>
  
    
<div id="homeSlideText">
 
 <div id="bannerContainer">
 
  <h1> {embed:sectionTitle} </h1> 
 
 </div>

</div>

#6 / Jun 14, 2012 12:21pm

Kurt Deutscher
827 posts

Off the top of my head:

1. {exp:channel:entries channel=“store_info” limit=“1” dynamic=“no”} Add a category=”” parameter so EE knows which store’s info to use when it’s on a category. With dynamic=“no” it’s totally blind to the URL, so you’ll need to give it more information about where the info is (unless you have a whole channel with only one entry).

2. A couple of years back, there was a bug where the “limit” paramater would count expired entries, but the channel:entries tag wouldn’t display them. So if you had 2 entries, and the first was expired, you would get nothing in the tag. I believe this bugs been fixed, but you might try moving up the limit to 10 or something just to rule out that this old bug hasn’t come back.
#7 / Jun 14, 2012 12:30pm
primeinc
11 posts
Thanks Kurt,

sadly both of these are a no go…

Also I missed copied the template the code that the nav is embedded in. It is actually the
```
{embed=“Templates/.InsideHeaderNav” sectionTitle=“Fishing Reports”}
```
Although that shouldn’t make much of a difference other then to show that I’m not stupid putting body code in the <head>.
#8 / Jun 15, 2012 3:44pm

primeinc
11 posts

Any additional thoughts on this guys?

#9 / Jun 15, 2012 4:34pm

Dan Decker

7338 posts

Hi primeinc,

I feel your frustration on this. Can I get you to test the embedded template on it’s own?

Can you make a new template and plug in your embed code:

<div id="header">

 <div id="headerContainer">
 
  <a href="http://{site_url}"></a>
  
  <ul id="storeInfo">
   
   {exp:channel:entries channel="store_info" dynamic="no"}
      <li> {street_address} Bozeman MT </li>
      <li> {406_phone_number}  ∗ {1800_number} </li>
      <li> Store Hours:    Mon-Sat: {monday_saturday_hours}     Sun: {sunday_hours}  </li> 
   {/exp:channel:entries}
   
           
  </ul>
  
  <div id="pagesearch">
   <div class="searchform">
    {exp:search:simple_form channel="blog|products|class|guide_trip|fishing_report" result_page="Search"}
     <input type="submit" class="formSearchSubmit"/>
     <input type="text" name="keywords" value="" class="formSearchInput" />
    {/exp:search:simple_form}
   </div>
  </div>
  
  
  {globalNav}
  
  <div class="clear"></div>
  
 </div>
 
</div>
  
    
<div id="homeSlideText">
 
 <div id="bannerContainer">
 
  <h1> {!-- embed:sectionTitle --} </h1> 
 
 </div>

</div>

With that, we have no limit or embed variable. Save this template and access it in the browser.

Does it return any results at all?

Cheers,

#10 / Jun 17, 2012 7:58pm
Tyas
35 posts
Hi Dan,

I have the same problem ini my 2.5.0. My channel entries is not working ONLY in categories page like http://domain.com/v1/pk/C32/. The same channel entry tag is working in other pages except categories. this is the tag.
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="store_simple_entry" entry_id="294" dynamic="no"}
 {keterangan_detail}
{/exp:channel:entries}
```
#11 / Jun 18, 2012 5:18pm

Dan Decker
7338 posts

Hi Tyas,

Thank you for your question!

Can you show the whole template for “pk”?

As a test, since you are specifying the entry_id= parameter, let’s take out the dynamic=“no” parameter and see what we get.

Cheers,

#12 / Jun 18, 2012 10:16pm

Tyas

35 posts

I just upgrade to 2.5.2, already take out the dynamic=no but stil no luck. This is the pk template from domain.com/v1/pk/C123

{preload_replace:template_group="v1"}
{preload_replace:template="pk"}
 
{embed="{template_group}/_store_header" template_group="{template_group}" template="{template}"}

<div class="span-24 latar_normal">
 <div class="kolom_kiri">
  {embed="v1_blok/blok_kategori"}
  {embed="v1_blok/blok_merek"} {!-- contain channel entries and not working properly --}
  {embed="v1_blok/blok_fb_pages"}
  {embed="v1_blok/blog_adsense"}
 </div>

 <div class="kolom_tengah">
</div>

 {exp:channel:entries channel="products" limit="30" dynamic="yes" dynamic_parameters="orderby|limit|sort"}     
  <div class="box_grid_produk">

   <div>
   {if product_images}
    {exp:channel_images:images entry_id="{entry_id}" limit="1" cover_only="yes"}
     <a href="http://{url_title_path={template_group}/pi}">{image:url:small}</a>
    {/exp:channel_images:images}
   {/if}

      
   </div>
   <div>
    <div>

     <a href="http://{url_title_path={template_group}/pi}">{related_entries id="brand_manufacture"}{title}{/related_entries} {title}</a>
    </div>
    <div>
       {exp:rating:stats entry_id="{entry_id}" precision="1"}
     {stars_overall_avg} ({overall_avg}/5.0)
       {/exp:rating:stats}
    </div>

    <div>
    {if price_list!=""}<small>List <strike>{price_list}</strike></small>{/if}
    <h4>
    {if sale_price==""}
     <strong>{product_price}</strong>
    {if:else}
     <strong><strike>{product_price}</strike></strong>

     <strong>{sale_price}</strong>
    {/if}
    </h4>
<p>    </div><br />
    <div class="quiet">{related_entries id="keterangan_produk_khusus"}{title}{/related_entries}</div><br />
   </div><br />
   <div><br />
    {exp:cartthrob:add_to_cart_form <br />
     entry_id="{entry_id}" <br />
     no_tax="{no_tax}"<br />
     no_shipping = "{no_shipping}"<br />
     return="{template_group}/cv"} <br />
       <br />
     <input type="submit" class="button orange" value="+ Add to Cart" /><br />
       <br />
    {/exp:cartthrob:add_to_cart_form}<br />
   </div><br />
  </div><br />
 {/exp:channel:entries}</p>



<p><br />
 </div></p>

<p> <div><br />
 {!-- KETERANGAN PRODUK UMUM --}<br />
  {exp:channel:entries channel="store_simple_entry" entry_id="294"}<br />
   {keterangan_detail}<br />
  {/exp:channel:entries}<br />
 </div></p>

<p></div></p>

<p></div> {!-- end of container --}</p>

<p><br />
{embed="{template_group}/_store_footer" template_group="{template_group}" template="{template}"}

{embed="v1_blok/blok_merek"}—> this contain channel entry and not working properly either.

Just info I have another page with 2 embed channel entries like this and working fine.

#13 / Jun 20, 2012 3:37pm
Dan Decker
7338 posts
Hi Tyas,

Can you try this for me? Since we are on a category template, we want ExpressionEngine to ignore category information on this one channel entries tag. We can tell it that with the relaxed_categories=“yes” parameter.
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="store_simple_entry" entry_id="294" relaxed_categories="yes"}
 {keterangan_detail}
{/exp:channel:entries}
```
Let me know your result!

Cheers,
#14 / Jun 20, 2012 7:15pm

Tyas
35 posts

still no luck with relaxed_categories=“yes” Dan.

How about primeinc, is he already solved the problem?
#15 / Jun 22, 2012 10:30pm
Tyas
35 posts
I am getting frustated on this, i try simple template in URL category: v1/pk/C8/cat_url with relaxed_categories=“yes” and stil not working. Is it a bug or wrong template?
```
{exp:channel:entries channel="products" limit="20" dynamic="yes" pagination="bottom"}     
 <li>{title}</li>
 {paginate}
         Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}
 {/paginate}
{/exp:channel:entries}


{exp:channel:entries channel="store_simple_entry" entry_id="294" relaxed_categories="yes"}
 {keterangan_detail}
{/exp:channel:entries}
```
BUT it’s working on v1/pk/category/cat_url
with setting
1. Use Category URL Titles In Links? YES
2. Category URL indicator = category

The question?
Should i change all the category url method? since i already submit the category url to google and almost finish all my template, OR other solution using standard numeric indicator /C../

Please advice.

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