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I have a multi-column layout that is supposed to only display items that are set to a certain type.

There is a custom field that lets you select whether the entry is an event or an offer.

So within my entries loop, I have {if event_type == "offer"} which only displays entries set to be an offer.

Then I use {switch='floatleft|floatright'} to set the class of a div to create the columns.

The problem I have is that since not all entries are offers, the loop is still counting the entries that don’t get displayed so the switch statement does not work correctly and the visible entries do not alternate between floatleft & floatright.

Hope that makes sense.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi mediapimp,

You could eliminate the conditional altogether and use the search parameter like so

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" search:event_type="=offer" dynamic="no"}
  
 <div class="{switch='floatleft|floatright'}">
   <h2>{title}</h2>
<p>    {body}<br />
  </div><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

Note: Only fields of the type “Text Input”, “Textarea”, and “Drop-down Lists” are searched with this parameter.

Hope that helps

John Henry

Good suggestion but I’m not using the EE entries tag. I’m using the calendar:events tag from Solspace’s Calendar add-on.

Any other thoughts?

Actually, the search parameter works in their calendar:events tag!!

Guess I should have tried it first! 😊

Thanks for the idea.

Good stuff! Glad it worked for you