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Hi,
I have problems with the following:
I would like to display the sub categories for a given category.

I started out wuth the vz_subcategories plugin. Works well.

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" category='{exp:vz_subcategories id="10"}' sort="asc" orderby="title" parse="inward"} 
    {title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

This code outputs all title tags for the subcats of category 10.

Now, the issue: I want to use Low seg2cat, to dynamically set the parent ID.
I put the categories name in segement 3.

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" category='{exp:vz_subcategories id="{segment_3_category_id}"}' sort="asc" orderby="title" parse="inward"} 
    {title}
{/exp:channel:entries}

But it shows nothing. I turned on Template Debugging. I see, that cat2seg is working. It returns the 10 as expected. So, the code is again

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" category='{exp:vz_subcategories id="10"}' sort="asc" orderby="title" parse="inward"}

But I assume, that EE is reponsible for this behaviout.

http://www.mysite.com/index.php/templategroup/template/category_url_name

And EE limits the channels tag automatically to category 10. I see this behaviour, when I just use the tag without any catagory-parameter. It just returns the entries, that are within that category.

Any ideas, how I can circumvent that? How can I dynamically set the parent_cat_id? Either based on the URL-segement, or based on any other parameter.

Thanks
awa

EDIT: Never mind, just forgot to use the good old “dynamic=“no”.  😉
Issue solved