[Resolved] Conditional block. Only show the block if the view inside it returns any records

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[henrikG]

Hello Support

I have created two custom post types.

Lesson
Downloads

One Lesson can have multiple downloads
One download can be related to multiple lessons.

So I have created a Many to Many relationsship between lesson and downloads.

I am building the lesson content template.

In the lesson content template I want to display a block with a view of the related downloads, but ONLY if there are any related downloads to the lesson.

There is no point ins showing a Title "Lesson downloads" if there are no lessons to display.

So how do you build a conditional Gutenberg block where the condition is, "are there any records returned by the query"?

Cheers

[Jamal]

Hello and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

There is currently no way to calculate the count of results of a view outside of the view(in the wrapper conditional block). So, you will have to create a custom function that calculates the count, register it in Toolset settings, then use it inside the conditional block.
- https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views/using-custom-functions-in-conditions/

In this custom function you can either use:
- The toolset_get_related_posts function from our relationship api https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/#toolset_get_related_posts
- Or the get_view_query_results from our views api https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#get_view_query_results
Both functions will return an array of results, you can check if it is empty using the empty php function. Maybe this thread may help. https://toolset.com/forums/topic/conditional-output-with-found-count-or-items-count/#post-559140

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.