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All,

I am trying to reference the News Module from a User Defined Tag so that I can get a count of active articles from a particular category to determine if I should display a predefined message.

I have searched through countless post but non have really shown this method that I am trying to achieve.

Is it possible to do this and if so any inspirational code would be most helpful!

Thanks!
Wes

Instead of a UDT, why don't you create a summary template for this.. There might be a smarty variable that has the count.. if it doesn't you can just count it. The summary template won't output anything, (unless you want it to)

Thank you for the suggestion and I will try that to see if it will do what I want it to.

Thank you Wishbone, that did the trick and was quite easy to implement.