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{if logged_in} and {if logged_out} are parsed early, right?

So why doesn’t this work?

{exp:channel:entries 
    status="open" 
    channel="pages" 
{if logged_out}search:public_content="=Yes"{/if}
    dynamic="no" 
}
    {entry_id}:{title};
{/exp:channel:entries}

- where public_content is the short name of a checkbox channel field which has the value ‘Yes’ if checked (and is set searchable in the channel field admin).

If I take out the {if logged_out}{/if} tags it’s OK & only returns pages marked public_content.

I’m using EE2.5.2.

Any ideas?

Did some further research. People have said “conditional statements inside tag declarations should never be used” - and I finally found an explanation

I thought if logged_in was always a simple conditional because I thought if logged_in, if logged_out, and member_group were early parsed global variables. What I found, thanks to an observation by Nicolas Bottari from Solspace, is they only operate as simple conditionals within the channel:entries tag.

- posted by Jim F here

...an undocumented feature?

The first rule of EE seems to be: if in doubt, wrap it in another template. The equivalent of ‘turn it off and turn it on again’.

So here’s my solution:

{embed="my-subtemplate" logged_in="{if logged_out}=Yes{/if}"}

...
then in the subtemplate
...

{exp:channel:entries 
    status="open" 
    channel="pages" 
    search:public_content="{embed:logged_in}"
    dynamic="no" 
}
    {entry_id}:{title};
{/exp:channel:entries}

- suits me as I’m trying to pull out public pages for a subnav. Would be keen to hear anyone else’s.