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We have a field field for vcards and we want to use conditionals to check if each user has specified a file.

We’ve tried both examples below and nothing shows up even when a file has been selected for that user.

Any help pointing us in the right direction is much appreciated.

{if people_vcard != ""}
<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>
{/if}

{if people_vcard}
<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>
{/if}

What happens when you isolate the field {people_vcard} for a user with a file? Are you getting anything?

What are the other ee tags you have surrounding this?

Without the if statement the field appears and works properly. The conditional is the issue.

We have quite a bit of code around it, including other fields that are working well.

Below is a larger sample:

{related_entries id="people_office"}
        <span>{title}</span>

         {office_address}
         Tel {office_phone}

         Fax {office_fax}
        
        {/related_entries}
        <a href="mailto:{people_email}">{people_email}</a>

        {if people_vcard}
        <a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>{/if}
 
        
       </div>
       {people_bio}

Gotcha. And everything else between the if statement is showing? Anchor and “Vcard” copy? But just not the file itself?

What if you tried

{if '{people_vcard}' != ''}<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>{/if}

Thanks for the help on this. No luck on that example, now the vcard appears for every users bio even when they don’t have one specified.

This is the only part that doesn’t show, everything else in the larger chunk of code is working properly:

<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>

What’s the channel:entries tag or larger tag you have around this?

Sure:

{exp:channel:entries channel="people" limit="1"}

Hmm. *scratching head*
Does the same thing have if you put an if statement around another field?

Yea…same here. So I just tried a conditional on the e-mail field and it worked.

I think this issue has something to do with the fact the field type is a file.

Is this it?
https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/17450

Yea, I’m pretty sure it’s a bug. Thanks for all the recommendations on this. I’m using 2.52 so my field didn’t match what was specified in the bug fix so I left it as is.

Even tried reversing the approach, and that doesn’t work:

{if people_vcard == ''}{if:else}
<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>{/if}

That sucks. Good luck and I’m sure you’ll get it up sooner than later.

Thanks for tossing in to help, Stephen!

jsuissa, one of your first examples is the correct syntax, and it should work:

{if people_vcard}
<a href="http://{people_vcard}">Vcard</a>
{/if}

Just to make sure we’re on the same page here, could you update to EE 2.5.3 and give that conditional syntax a try? If it doesn’t work, let me know what the output is instead.