HELP! category - subcategory relationship output

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July 21st, 2003, 11:23 PM

trishaDawn

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HELP! category - subcategory relationship output

Please, I cant think anymore...

Due to this forum, I almost have my "application" working!!

I need to display a main category, it's subcategories and their respective items.

I have three tables:

tbMemos (memoID, memoName)
tbCategories (catID, catName, catParentCatID)
tbMemoCategories (memoCatID, memoID, catID)

tbMemos
memoID memoName
1 Good Morning
2 Good Afternoon
3 Good Evening

tbCategories
catID catName catParentCatID
1 Leadership 0
2 Roles 1
3 Legislation 1
4 Architecture 0
5 Servers 4
6 Acquisition 0
7 Cell Phones 6

etc...

tbMemoCategories (ties these to the tbMemos table)
memoCatID memoID catID
1 1 4
2 2 7
3 3 2

etc...

DESIRED Output:

Leadership (MAIN CATEGORY)

Roles (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
memo
memo

Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
memo
memo
memo
memo
memo

etc....

My problem:
I cannot figure out how to ouput as such. My output looks like this...

Leadership (MAIN CATEGORY)

Roles (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Roles (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Roles (SUBCATEGORY)
memo

Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo
Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo

etc...

I've tried "group" by CatID in the output but I get:

Leadership (MAIN CATEGORY)

Roles (SUBCATEGORY)
memo

Leadership (SUBCATEGORY)
memo

etc... (not looping through the memos)

Here is my code:

<cfquery name="getMain" datasource="CIO">
SELECT catName
FROM tbcategories
WHERE catID = #url.catID#
</cfquery>

<cfquery name="getMemos" datasource="CIO">
SELECT tbMemos.memoID, memoName, tbCategories.catID, tbCategories.catParentCatID, tbCategories.catName, tbMemoCategories.catID, tbMemoCategories.memoID

FROM tbMemos, tbCategories, tbMemoCategories

WHERE tbMemos.memoID = tbMemoCategories.memoID AND
tbMemoCategories.catID = tbCategories.catID AND
tbCategories.catParentCatID = #url.catID#
ORDER BY tbMemoCategories.catID
</cfquery>

<cfoutput query="getMain">
<tr><td>#catName</td></tr>
</cfoutput>

<cfoutput query="getMemos" >
<tr><td>
#catName# #memoName#
</tr>
</cfoutput>

</table>

PLEASE HELP - WILL BE SO GRATEFUL!

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July 24th, 2003, 07:14 AM

DeepDown

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If I understand the problem correctly, this should do the trick...

<cfoutput query="getMemos" group="CatID">

#catName#

<cfoutput>
#memoName#
</cfoutput>

</cfoutput>

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Gran Roguismo agrees!

July 25th, 2003, 07:55 AM

trishaDawn

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Thank You so much for replying with the correct solution!

I mustve tried every combination but that one!

Youre the best!

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