How to show the number of links contained in subcategory

[kamika]

I would like to show the total number of links contained in the main category and in all of his subcategory.
To explain better:
e.g. if I have a category with 0 links and 3 subcategories with 100 links each, for that category, indexu, on the home page, shows the number 0 (instead of 300!)
Is there a way to show for each category the total number of links including the ones contained in its sucategories? In my opinion this is a more correct behavior...
Please help

[Bruceper]

No way that I can see. What I would do is either remove the number of links, or add the number of links to the subcats on the index.

The reason indexu shows 0 links for that category is because there are 0 links in it. The links in the subcategory belong to the subcat. Perhaps there could be a new function added called total_number_of_links (this should be submitted to the project tools as a suggestion).

[kamika]

Thanks Bruce!
Anyway I made a test that gives a strange result:
I edited one link of the subcategory and I added as additional category the main category and suddenly, now the category show the whole number of links contained in the child subcategories (from 0 to 597 !!!). If I access the main category I see only the edited link.
It's weird...

[Bruceper]

I'd have to wait until the weekend is over, but I could get someone to confirm how the number of links works.