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Hi There,

I was wondering if anyone ever ran into this issue. I have a slideshow for each business that I am featuring on my site (there are several). I have set up my file fields for each business to receive a maximum of six photos for their slideshow. When it’s time to publish the channel, of course it wants six pictures. What happens if I only have say three photos available for that business to uploaded into my channel and I have to leave the other fields empty. How can I set this up so that I don’t get blank photos in the slideshow when three of my six fields are left empty in the channel and without photos? Is there an “if/then” statement I could use for this somehow so I don’t have to code in six actual channel entries? Here is my JQuery slide show where you can see this happening where the last three photo slots are blank:
http://pncagr.ca/index.php/farms/detail/farm_j_m_mountain_farm_u_pick
Thanks… dave

This is a spot where using Matrix would be best - that way you don’t need to define a maximum, you just upload as many photos as needed.

It’s the approach I use on our travel site for per-entry photo galleries:
http://boyinks4adventure.com/our-travels/grand-canyon/

You can grab some sample templates here:
http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/boyinks4adventure-the-rv/

Otherwise you can use a conditional to check a field to see if it has content:

{if custom_field !=""}
  Show it
{/if}

Thanks for the suggestions… I would like to try Matrix; but first, seeing my lack of experience with conditionals, I would like to try this first, get that working and the implement Matrix. So far in my channel entry I have the following:

{exp:channel:entries channel="all_farms" disable="member_data|trackbacks" limit="1"}
  <div id=“myslides”>
  {if farm_pic1 =1ZBRgaFrGqVEtLhpzvkZiHy0YNa1bZ9Btypography_img_src_end alt={farm_pic1} title={farm_pic1} width=280 height=280 border=0
  </div>
  {prev_next}
{/exp:channel:entries}

I must not have this right as the photo in the slideshow doesn’t appear. Thanks… dave

Generally the approach is:

{if farm_pic1 !=""}
  farm_pic1
{/if}

Works great! Thanks for your help.