Trouble displaying multiple entries under one category

#1 / Feb 21, 2012 12:06pm
rbboyl
38 posts
This may be a simple solution, but for some reason I can’t figure it out. I have two entries that share the same category and I’m trying to get them to display in a nested unordered list (for navigation).

When I use the code below, it lists the two entries separately and repeats the category name twice.
```
<ul>
      <li><a href="http://{site_url}">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="/about-us">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Food</a>
       <ul>
       {exp:channel:entries channel="products" category_group="1" orderby="entry_id" dynamic="no"}
  {categories show="17|18|19|20|21"}
        <li><a href="#">{category_name}</a>
  <ul>
 
  <li><a href="/products/detail/{url_title}">{title}</a></li>
  
  </ul>
 </li>
 {/categories}
       {/exp:channel:entries}
       </ul>
      </li>
```
The result I get is:
Home
About
Food
-Category 1
—Entry 1
-Category 1
—Entry 2
-Category 2
—Entry 3
-Category 2
—Entry 4

What I want is:
Home
About
Food
-Category 1
—Entry 1
—Entry 2
-Category 2
—Entry 3
—Entry 4
#2 / Feb 22, 2012 12:58pm

rbboyl
38 posts

Anybody?
#3 / Feb 22, 2012 2:14pm

rbboyl
38 posts

Forget it, I found the solution here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4643012/displaying-entries-per-category-in-expressionengine

#4 / Feb 22, 2012 3:10pm

Shane Eckert

7174 posts

Hello rbboyl,

I am glad to see you found the answer!

We try to get to these posts as fast as we can.

I am pasting in the solution from stackoverflow just for reference.

Cheers!

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So, here’s what I ended up with at the end (courtesy of some help over at the EE boards):

{exp:channel:categories channel="faq-camp" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
    <section class="faq-category-container closed">
        <h1 class="faq-category-header"><a href="#">{category_name}</a></h1>
        <div class="faq-questions-container">
            <dl>
    {embed="jazz-camp/faq-cat-list" faqlink="{category_id}" faqparent="faq-camp"}
            </dl>
        </div><!-- end .faq-questions-container -->
    </section><!-- end .faq-category -->
{/exp:channel:categories}

And as for the embed, it looks like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{embed:faqparent}" category="{embed:faqlink}" dynamic="no"}<!-- entries -->
    <dt>{title}</dt>
    <dd>
        {faq_answer}
    </dd>
{/exp:channel:entries}

The reason for the embed has to do with how things are pulled in with regards to getting the correct channel entries; simply having the {exp:channel:entries} inline in the page didn’t quite work.

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