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Hi there,

it must be so (cmsm)simple, but I can't get it working..

I'd like to display news as following:

category 1
 

•  
• news 1.1
   
• news 1.2
   

category 2
 

•  
• news 1.1
   
• news 1.2
   

In short : a list of categories, with sublist of news links (e.g. $entry->titlelink).

With 'browsecat=1' I can display a clickable category list (but no subnews, just count of them), or with 'summarytemplate' I'm able to display a list of news and their categories (but that's not exactly what I want).

Is there a smarty counter/capture trick to do it, or something else (any way to write the right template) ?

I know we're most of us on holiday, so thanks to those who are reading this post.

Make new summary template with just the titlelink call in it and call like so...

Category name
{news sumarrytemplate="NewOne" category="category name"}

But that way, the category title is hardcoded in the page template so, if the category is empty, its title will show up.

In fact, I'd like a browsecat without count (like sample one) but with a list of news.

Thanks anyway, Doctor.

The title of a category will only show up if you put it there, and I would think you won't be putting titles to categories that don't exist or have no content in them...

You're right if I write it in my content tag.
But I was looking for a more automatic way to list non-empty categories and sublist news items (it is for a client who won't write cmsms tags. He can manage news with TinyMCE, but that's all).
I'd like to write {news display='categorylist+newslist'} and showing it in the right column, you know.

As I write, I wonder if CTLModuleMaker is not a good choice to get more control of that (actually, I don't need all news parameters).
I'll check tomorrow.

Thanks again for your time.

If this can be figured out, it would be a HUGE help to me. I've been having the same problem for months. I don't know enough smarty/coding/php to solve it myself.

The categories are often empty on my site due to expiration dates.