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So I have a weblog tag searching for entries based on the URL segments and status. {segment_1} is the entry’s URL Title, where {segment_2} is a flag used in a conditional to determine a status to use.

Very simple. Here’s the code as it would be in the template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myweblog" url_title="{segment_1}"
status="{if '{segment_2}' == 'preview'}Awaiting_approval|open{if:else}open{/if}" dynamic="off" limit="1"}

When that entry is open, works fine. When it’s closed, work’s as expected. When set to Awaiting_approval - it fails like England v Algeria on a sunny day?

Am I overlooking something here?

an ‘advanced conditional’ (anything with if:else in it) is probably processed too late for this to work.  try this instead:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myweblog" url_title="{segment_1}"
{if segment_2 == 'preview'}status="Awaiting_approval|open"{/if} {if segment_2 != 'preview'}status="open"{/if} dynamic="off" limit="1"}

Am I overlooking something here?

That Algeria has a better team!? LOL

your condition reads:
if ...show me A and B otherwise show me B

I think it should be:
if ...show me A and B otherwise show me C
Awaiting_approval|open{if:else}closed{/if}
but it depends on your workflow logic I guess.

nah he’s basically wanting to show the pending entries if the person is viewing the preview, otherwise just open entries.

I guess depends on what you consider ‘preview’ since on that page he will see “Awaiting_approval AND open”....why preview something that is considered ‘open’ or published. It is already public and ‘viewed’.
Semantics LOL.
So this would make more sense to me:

{if segment_2 == 'preview'}status="Awaiting_approval"{/if} {if segment_2 != 'preview'}status="open"{/if}

but then again there is days when I don’t make sense to myself 😊

The aim of the game is to show a preview of entries that are either already open or awaiting approval, pretty straight forward? I’m using the LG Live Look extension - where the Live Look adds the /preview/ suffix to the URL which flags the entry as in preview mode - albeit open or awaiting approval.

Yes it makes sense to view only Awaiting approval entries, but regardless the latter should work whether the semantics exist or not.

Putting status=“Awaiting_approval|open” works as it’s intended to, that’s what I want. But the issue is hassled by the conditionals. For some strange reason the conditionals are not being parsed in the query.

Attempt 1:

status="{if '{segment_2}' == 'preview'}Awaiting_approval|{/if}open"

The query output:

t.status IN ('{if \'preview\' == \'preview\'}Awaiting_approval','{/if}open')

Attempt 2:

{if '{segment_2}' == 'preview'}status="Awaiting_approval|open"{if:else}status="open"{/if}

The query output:

t.status = 'open'

The final solution that eventually worked was:

{if '{segment_2}' == 'preview'}status="Awaiting_approval|open"{/if} {if '{segment_2}' != 'preview'}status="open"{/if}

Why it couldn’t do an {if:else} beats me. Why I need two conditionals beats me.

Thanks for having a look at this with me.

http://expressionengine.com/docs/templates/globals/conditionals.html

NOTE: Advanced Conditionals are evaluated after all EE tags are parsed.

the {if:else} makes it an advanced conditional and thus parsed too late to feed its output into another tag’s input.