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I’m hoping I’ll explain this well…not sure how to figure it out yet.

I have a “main_pages” channel (using the Pages module) that grabs from about 10 or so other channels and serves them up on each page. I’ve created a couple of different template types, one of which is a “landing page” template that allows a user to paste Google Analytics tracking code into the page so that we can track that particular page in analytics (as part of a goal, etc.).

So basically, if the channel is “main_pages” I’m going to query whether the the {pages_google} field is populated, and if not, serve the standard Google Analytics code.

So this code is going to be in a footer that is shared across all templates. How do I get templates that aren’t part of the “main_pages” channel to ignore this code and allow all the other pages to use the standard analytics code?

I was looking at the conditional variables, and didn’t see anything that would let me make a conditional based on channel. Is there a way to do this? Or do I just have to break down and create a second footer (BLEH!)?

You could do this with URL segments if you have a suitable URl structure.

Lets say your URL is http://www.mysite.com/landing

<!-- check to see if its a landing page -->
{if segment_1 == "landing"}

  {exp:channel:entries channel="main_pages" limit="1"}
  
    <!-- check to see if the custom google code is present -->
    {if pages_google != ""}
    {pages_google}
    {/if}

    <!-- if custom code not present add default google code -->
    {if pages_google == ""}
    Default google code
    {/if}

  {/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

<!-- check to see if its NOT a landing page -->
{if segment_1 != "landing"}
 Default google code
{/if}

Alternative method:

{if segment_1 == "landing"}

  {exp:channel:entries channel="main_pages" limit="1" search:pages_google="not IS_EMPTY"}
  
    {pages_google}

    {if no_results}
    Default google code
    {/if}

  {/exp:channel:entries}

{/if}

{if segment_1 !="landing"}
 Default google code
{/if}

You can use {if channel_short_name == "landing"}do this{/if} as well, though if your segment has a one to one relationship with the channel, blue dreamer’s suggestion is perhaps the more practical way to achieve this because the condition is run before the entries loop is used.