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Find Second Parent Category

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Hello,

I've got the silliest problem that I can't manage to get over. I'm working in a Category Archive page and I'm trying to determine the second parent category of category in question. For example, if the category structure was as follows:

- Category 1
- Category 2
- Category 3
- Category 4

Now using the MT CategoryLabel tag, I get the value of Category 4, as I'm in a Category Archive page. Using the MT TopLevelParent tag, I get the value of Category 1, as it's the top level parent category. However, what I'm trying to get stored in a variable is the value of Category 2, the second parent category as opposed to the top parent or bottom child. I've gone round and round with this and I know there has got to be an easy way to pull that value out and store it, I just can't figure out how. Can anyone please lend a hand with this? Thanks!

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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  • The category structure above, should have looked more like this:

    - Category 1
      - Category 2
        - Category 3
          - Category 4
    

    Hopefully that makes a little more sense now.

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