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I’m trying to list the categories of another MSM site, similarly to how I’m outputting the channel entries from another MSM site…

{exp:channel:categories channel='blog' site="SiteB" show_empty="yes" style='linear' disable='category_fields'}

...but this doesn’t seem to work for categories. I’m not finding any reference to being able to use the site parameter in the categories tag, so I guess this post is just to verify that, no, you can’t output categories from another MSM site (except potentially by using the query tag)?

Hi Ian,

According to the User Guide, the site parameter should work for the channel categories tag. Could you try simplifying your tag to the bare minimum to see if you can get it to work?

{exp:channel:categories channel="blog" site="sen-dev"}
<li><a href="/blog/topic/{category_id}/">{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:categories}

The above outputs nothing. Changing the tag to an entries tag with the same parameters outputs the expected entries:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" site="sen-dev"}
<li>{title}</li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

I’m running EE 2.2.0 (hotfixed)

Running the categories tag inside the ‘sen-dev’ site itself (not from another site’s template) outputs the categories as expected as well, so I know that the content is there.

Hi Ian,

I’m not able to replicate this issue on my end. Be on the lookout for an email from me, and we’ll see what’s going on first-hand.

We’ll get you fixed right up.

Thanks Kevin, unfortunately this is only hosted on a local dev server currently.

If you say it works on your end, that’s good enough for me. I’ll re-deploy a freshly downloaded copy of the latest EE and try it again.

Sounds good, Ian. Give it a try and let us know what you find out. We’ll be here.