[Resolved] Conditional output for non-empty vs. empty related wpv-post-link

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[jimP]

Tell us what you are trying to do? I have the following code that works successfully in most cases with a related post title:

[wpv-post-link id="$ecotypes-main-theme"]

But there is a small number of cases where the relationship (deliberately) does not exist. I would like, in these cases, to provide generic text to note this.

Is there any documentation that you are following? Yes, I am looking at your general conditional help page here:

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/checking-types-fields-and-custom-fields/

and your empty/non-empty conditional page here:

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/checking-fields-and-other-elements-for-emptynon-empty-values/

I could simply write two conditionals, one if not empty (most cases) and one if empty (the few cases). But I can't figure out how to refer to the title field of the related post, as it is a default post field (checked in Types) and it is a related field as well.

Is there a similar example that we can see? I haven't encountered a similar example in my uses of Toolset to date.

What is the link to your site? hidden link. Look for "Related Main Theme" toward top, where, you will see that Views is a bit confused with this shortcode, and simply outputs the wpv-post-link for the existing post, not its related (ecotypes-main-theme) post.

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

If the relationship (deliberately) does not exist, the shortcode [wpv-post-id id="$ecotypes-main-theme"] will output the current post ID, so you can use it to compare with shortcode [wpv-post-id], for example:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-id id="$ecotypes-main-theme"]' eq '[wpv-post-id]' )"]
relationship (deliberately) does not exist.
[/wpv-conditional]

More help:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/using-shortcodes-in-conditions/

[jimP]

Yes, this works, thanks. For others' reference if helpful, my final conditional code:

[wpv-conditional if="( NOT('[wpv-post-id id="$ecotypes-main-theme"]' eq '[wpv-post-id]') )"][wpv-post-link id="$ecotypes-main-theme"][/wpv-conditional][wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-id id="$ecotypes-main-theme"]' eq '[wpv-post-id]' )"]N/A[/wpv-conditional]

Jim P.

[Luo Yang]

You are welcome