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On a site I’m doing, there are 6 Staff Members, all in one channel.  I have a Staff Profile box in a sidebar that chooses one of the 6 staffers at random (orderby=“random”) and posts a photo and a little blurb. I would like to avoid having the Staff Profile box be the same person as the current entry showing, so I’m looking for some kind of Omit Current Entry to put in the Staff Profile channel entry loop.  Is there something like that?  Or something else I’m missing?

thanks,
benjy

benjy ,

You could use an embed and pass the entry id of current entry to be excluded like so

for your sidebar

{exp:channel:entries channel="staff" url_title="{segment_3}"}
{embed="includes/staff-box" exclude="{entry_id}"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then in your include

{exp:channel:entries channel="staff" entry_id=" not {embed:exclude}" limit="1" orderby="random"}
{title}
{headshot}
{blurb}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Awesome!  Thanks so much.

No problems. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions