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When I am viewing a child category in segment 3 I want to be able to display the parent category name in my template.

The following does NOT work.  am I missing something?

{exp:channel:categories channel="products" show_empty="no" dynamic="yes" parent_only="yes" style="linear"}{category_name}{/exp:channel:categories}

looks like I may need to use a query.

Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

I can easily get the parent id using Lows seg2cat {segment_3_category_parent_id} but how do I work that in a query to display the category name of the id?

Try removing the dynamic=“yes” parameter. The categories module doesn’t have this parameter.

Mike

solved with some help from Low

{exp:query sql="SELECT cat_name FROM exp_categories WHERE cat_id = '{segment_3_category_parent_id}'"}
Parent name: {cat_name}
{/exp:query}

Try removing the dynamic=“yes” parameter. The categories module doesn’t have this parameter.

Mike

removing the dynamic=“yes” did not help, it still displayed all the parents in that group, not just the one that was active.

Hi Eastwood Design,

I’m glad you were able to come to a solution here.

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,