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This should be simple but then again nothing ever is…..

As field names need to be unique I am trying to concat the channel id to a field name so I can display the correct field name when using a channel tag

Is it possible to do something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channelOne|channelTwo|channelThree" limit="3"}

   {extended_{channel_id}}

{/exp:channel:entries}

The code above simply displays {extended_1} {extended_2}  {extended_2} etc as a string. It’s not parsing it correctly.

Thanks.

Can you specify the parse order of a channel tag? It dosen’t seem to have an effect.

You’ll need to do something like this :

{exp:channel entries channel="channelOne|channelTwo|channelThree" limit="3"}

{if channel_short_name == "channelOne"}
{my_field_in_channel_one}
{/if}

{if channel_short_name == "channelTwo"}
{my_field_in_channel_two}
{/if}

…and so on and so forth…

{/exp:channel:entries}

Documentation link for {channel_short_name} variable

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the response. That was the approach that I was trying to avoid but if it’s the only way then I’ll go with it. Thanks!

You’re running into parse order issues, and you can’t dictate EE’s parse order.

You can do {{segment_2}_field_name} (if you match template group names to channel names this may work) or {{site_short_name}_field_name} in MSM installs.

Hello emccoe,

The parse order is master that must be obeyed! 😊 I have had my fair share of headaches when all I had to do was look at the parse order.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Cheers,