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the Categories Archive tag doesn’t quite do it for me.

What I want to do is to display a list of categories (headers) then under each Category, show the entries assigned to each Category.

It is for a Contact List -

Department 1 (Category)

Name
Phone Number

Name
Phone Number

Department 2 (Category)

Name
Phone Number

I looked through the docs but couldn’t see anything. Then again I am a bit tired… :(

There isn’t a great way to get custom fields into the category archive- but the wiki has a workaround.  It can be a little query intensive for my taste, but it works.

Robin - I was using the approach you linked to in the Wiki.  It was working on EE 1.5.2. but I just noticed that now that I’ve upgraded to 1.6 it’s not pulling in the weblog entries.

Here’s the code:

{exp:weblog:category_archive weblog="chamber_faq" cache="yes" refresh="100"}
        {categories}
                    <h3>{category_name}</h3>
<p>                        {if category_description}<br />
                            {category_description}<br />
                        {/if}<br />
                      <br />
        <ul class="bullet"><br />
            {exp:weblog:entries weblog="chamber_faq" orderby="title" category="{category_id}" sort="asc"  disable="member_data|trackbacks|pagination"}<br />
                    <li><a href="http://{title_permalink=chamber_faq/answer}">{question}</a></li><br />
                 {/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
    </ul><br />
     {/categories}<br />
{/exp:weblog:category_archive}

Boyink- are you running the very latest build?  The addition of category custom fields had the first releases dropping single variables that weren’t cat custom fields.  Was addressed in the 20070626- so if you’re later than that, should be ok.  If it’s not- give a yell back.

Nope - I’ll update the site.  Thanks!

Thank you Michael! Another one to add to the EE experience bow 😉