[Resolved] Conditional Display displays Empty field

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[randiT]

I do not want a VIEW result to display if an image field is empty (wpcf-chicago-apartments-photos).

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-chicago-apartments-photos) ne '' )"]
TEMPLATE CONTENT
[/wpv-conditional]

The above code works except the EMPTY field displays with no content and there is an empty space. What am I missing?

Thanks!

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

I'm more than happy to assist you with this 🙂

You can actually check if a field is empty by taking a look at the link below.
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/checking-fields-and-other-elements-for-emptynon-empty-values/

This should guide you through the proper way of setting up the conditional shortcode.

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane

[randiT]

Hi:

That was the post I referred to for guidance. I can't figure out why the above code displays empty fields?

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

Could you explain what you want to achieve with the conditional code?

Maybe I can provide a solution for you 🙂

Thanks,
Shane

[randiT]

Thanks @shane

I am using Views to perform a real estate search. I only want real estate custom post types to display in the results if a specific real estate custom post field (an image field) has an image.

Does that make sense?

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

Thank you for the clarity.

Would you mind allowing me to have admin access to the website so that I can check on this for you ?

The private fields will be enabled for your next response.

Thanks,
Shane

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

Thank you for the credentials.

Unfortunately i'm not able to access them at the moment.
It seems we are experiencing a few issues with the forum.

Once i'm able to access the fields I'll update you on my progress.

Thanks,
Shane

[randiT]

Thanks. I really appreciate the help.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

I was able to access the private field.

Could you let me know which view I should be looking at ?

Thanks,
Shane

[randiT]

Hi:

It is the apartment View. This view appears on the home page and displays the apartments.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

I took a look at this for you.

The proper way to do it is to wrap the shortcode around the rows themselves.

However I noticed that there is a orphaned [/wpv-conditional] on the page.

Any idea what might be causing this ?

Thanks,
Shane

[randiT]

That did it... Thanks! Yes, I found the orphaned [/wpv-conditional] and removed it.

The new code now produces 2 columns not 3 columns as before. Going line by line through the code I can not finding the "why" this is happening....

[randiT]

OK.. I have been looking at this coding to long. Figured out the columns.

But there are still blank areas displayed where there is not an image.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Randi,

I believe I know why this occurs and it has to do with how views is indexing the items.

So you notice that above each call for the content template you see this [wpv-item index=1]

So how it works that it picks off each of the posts out of the list of posts being returned. So the post is being returned even if it has no image. Technically the space will still be there but the post will be hidden because of the conditions not being met.

This seems to be a limitation to how views work.

Thanks,
Shane