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Hi all..

As the title says, im basically wanting to put some code together to basically check one channel for an open entry.. if there is no entry for this channel, then i want to show an entry from another channel..

Tried a few variations with the {no_results} tag but to no avail…

How best can i do this?

Its as simple as i want to show a competition if there is one, if not i want to show an entry from another channel..

Sounds simple.. but cant quite get it to work…

Hi Brian,

Not seeing what you’ve tried I can’t say why it’s not working but you could perhaps do something like this maybe?

Main Entries Tag

{exp:channel:entries
 channel="main_channel"
 limit="1"
 dynamic="no"
 search:body="asdasdasdasdasd"}

{if no_results}
{embed="template_group/no_results_tag"}
{/if}

{title}


{/exp:channel:entries}

template_group/no_results_tag

{exp:channel:entries
 channel="no_results_channel"
 dynamic="no"}

{title}


{/exp:channel:entries}

I placed the search:body=”“ parameter in the first tag just to ensure I didn’t get any results for testing purposes but obviously use whatever tag parameters you need there.

Upon getting no results I’m using the {embed} variable to bring back a secondary tag instead.

Hope that helps a bit.

Mark

Hi Mark..

Sorry brain not in gear.. i didnt put the other {exp:channel:entries} into an embed.. thats why! duh!

Im sure that will work now..

Thanks for the assist, Mark!

Etheya - going to go ahead and close this thread. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.