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Hi,
I’m trying to embed a template into a page only if a certain element is present.
This is what I am using:
{if image-2}{embed="globals/_js-slide"}{/if}

in the page ‘image-2’ isn’t inserted but it is rendering the template ‘_js-slide’ anyway.

this works fine though for actually rendering ‘image-2’ and surrounding elements that I have told to only appear if ‘image-2’ does (divs etc, which arn’t showing in this page because ‘image-2’ isn’t).

Is there a different way of only conditionally adding templates?

Thanks.

It might be a parsing order issue. Have you tested the conditional with a simple:

{if image-2}IMAGE-2 EXISTS!{/if}

to see if it’s the conditional? If that text shows it’s possible there is a character within the image-2 field that you don’t see.

If it is a parsing order issue, meaning the embed is getting processed before the conditional is checked you could take the conditional and move it to the embed, like:

//IN MAIN TEMPLATE REMOVE CONDITIONAL & PASS VARIABLE THROUGH EMBED
{embed="globals/_js-slide" image_test="{image-2}"}
//IN _js-slide template
{if "{embed:image_test}" !=""}content of template…{/if}