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When accessing the category or single entry the <h1> only prints once as expected, however when accessing my templategroup/template directly the ELSE statement is printing <h1>Stuff</h1> twice. I’m pretty sure I must be doing something wrong but I can’t figure it out. Any clues what I might be doing wrong for this to happen?

{exp:channel:entries channel="articles"}

     {if category_request}

     <h1>Category</h1>
            
     {if:elseif "{total_results}"=="1"}
            
     <h1>Single Entry</h1>
            
     {if:else}
            
     <h1>Stuff</h1>
            
     {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Edit: Sorry, my version build info; v2.2.1 - Build: date 20110705

Any thoughts on this?

Does your channel have multiple entries? You can add limit=“1” to only have it loop once.

Hey VIM thanks for the response. Yes, there would be multiple entries once I replace <h1>stuff</h1> with the desired content. I’m also trying to understand why this would print twice so I can avoid it in the future (unless it’s a bug with EE?).

If it’s not a bug, would I have to reform my statements and use {exp:channel:entries channel="articles"} twice to get my desired effect?

If your looking to only have stuff print once of the header of the page with multiple entries below it you can also wrap like so

{if count == '1'}
  <h1>stuff</h1>
{/if}

Hi Pauly,

VIM, thanks for the assist!

I’m going to move this over into Community Help to keep the discussion going.

Pauly, feel free to start a new thread if you experience any technical issues with ExpressionEngine.

Best,

Okay, this might work. Thank you VIM. I need to adapt it slightly for what I’m trying to do since this isn’t within my header and I have some more conditions to run, but I can see it working, thanks.

Just for future reference, even if my template is not my header, content will still print twice if I use the {if:else}, and I should always clarify the condition, correct? If not, do you have any insight as to why this would print twice? I’m still not quite understanding that.

Sorry what I meant was the H1 tag when I said header.

Without seeing the full code and knowing what each custom fields/tags are, its hard to pin point whats going on and figure out why its behaving unexpectedly. I can only assume that you have two entries in the channel and its printing that code block twice since the else will catch everything that didnt match the conditions.

Edit: VIM, I managed to do what I was trying to achieve using an IF statement for segment_2 to check for my indicator, the category_request was what was holding me back from achieving my desired affect of using articles/index to drive three scenarios. Thank you very much for your help.