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In the trial version of my Newsletter Site: 
http://www.achesandjoints.com
I have currently assigned categories based on the topic to each of the articles.

All these five articles are from the same Issue of the Newsletter.  As we go to the next issue, I need to include a second category group for “Issue”.

In the tens of forum articles I have read, everyone casually says,  “In EE, you can assign multiple category groups to each weblog”, but I have been unable to find any information on how to go about doing it.

Can someone help/guide me in this process?  I would like a second category group called “Issue” under which I will likely have the categories: “Issue 1 April 2007, Issue 2 Aug 2007, ... etc”  These article will still be assigned to the first category group (based on topics) as well.

Many thanks,
Arun

CP Home ›  Admin ›  Weblog Administration ›  Weblog Management
Find the weblog in question and click ‘Edit Groups’.
There you can select one or any number of category-groups from the list by keeping the CTRL-key pressed.

Thank you Silencz,
That was perfect and so straight forward.

As a follow-up, I created a second group and selected that as well.  Now on the sidebar on my site, I have a long list of categories (from both groups) listed under the one heading of “Category.”  (see http://www.achesandjoints.com)

Is there a way to separate the listing of the two category groups on the site itself?  And to make it a drop-down list?

Arun

use the category_group=”” parameter available for the weblog categories tag (assuming this is the tag you’ve utilised here) and use the tag once for each list you wish to display.

the_butcher is dead on- you can control the cat group displaed in the category list via the category group parameter.

Hi Help!

This was the original code for the categories

<h2 class="sidetitle">Categories</h2>

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="nested"}
<a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

I tried to use the {category_group=""} tag as recommended.  See code below
Obviously, I am doing something wrong.  See the site as it is live and you can see the errors in the sidebar. :-(
http://www.achesandjoints.com
Can you tell me please, how to fix this?  In the category groups,  I have made
1. the Default category, which has the topics (Arthroplasty, Spine, etc)
2. The Issues category (Issue 1, April 2007; etc)
is this the right way to use this tag?

<h2 class="sidetitle">Categories</h2>

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="nested"}
{category_group="1"}
<a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}


<h2 class="sidetitle">Issues</h2>

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="nested"}
{category_group="2"}
<a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Ah- no, it’s a parameter for the categories tag- not a variable pair.  Try:

<h2 class="sidetitle">Categories</h2>

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="nested" category_group="1"}
<a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}


<h2 class="sidetitle">Issues</h2>

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="nested" category_group="2"}
<a href="http://{path={my_template_group}/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

As long as your group id’s are correct in the above, it should do what you’re looking for.

A related query;  After each entry, I only want the categories from Group one to be listed.  Currently, categories from both groups are listed.  See current code:

{categories}
<a href="http://{path=site_index}">{category_name}</a> •
{/categories}

How do I modify this so only categories from group 1 are listed.

Thanks for your help.
Arun

Not a problem- for the details, see the docs on that variable pair.  The short answer is- you do:

{categories show_group="1"}
<a href="http://{path=site_index}">{category_name}</a> •
{/categories}

Robin!  Yoo Hoo!
It worked.
I modified the groups as you suggested.  WoW!  It works!

Also, for the related query I included the show_groups and that worked too!

WoW!  I think I am going to like this program.
Many thanks for your help.

😊

LOL- glad you’re pleased.  (I use categories a ton in pretty much the same way you’re doing.  I was SO HAPPY when they added the ability to assign multiple category groups to a weblog.  Adds a lot of flexibility!)