checking if an attributes value ie empty

Tuesday 10 May 2005 4:36:37 pm

I have always used (since 3.3?) "has_content" to check if an attribute has any content.

So your code would read:

{section show=$parent.object.data_map.site_image.has_content}
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$parent.object.data_map.site_image}
{section-else}
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$grand.data_map.site_image}
{/section}

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Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:58:45 am

It's probably not working because $grand is not set. You are setting this to the grandparent aren't you?

Try adding {$grand|attribute(show,2)} to the template to see what value it has. Also turning on debugging will really help as it will tell you if you are tring to access variables that do not exist etc.

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Bruce

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Thursday 12 May 2005 6:00:29 pm

>...i noticed that it doesn't display anything in the section else even any static content

You have

{section show =$parent.object.data_map.site_image.content.is_empty|not}

I supplied

{section show=$parent.object.data_map.site_image.has_content}

If you have made that change and simply cut n' pasted the wrong code and it's still not working, post the debug output.

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Bruce

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