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Hi.
I’m getting a problem with segment:
if I specify a segment like this:
http://www.mysite.com/template/file/segment_1/

and I use the {segment_1} in the template everything works fine, but if I put another string, such as:
http://www.mysite.com/template/file/segment_3/segment_4
I don’t get anything.

Hi milogdm,

Welcome to the forums! Could you provide us with your template code? What does the URL actually look like?

It looks like there may be some confusion about segment variables as well. If your URL looks like this:

<a href="http://example.com/company/employees/joe/">http://example.com/company/employees/joe/</a>

‘company’ is segment 1,
‘employees’ is segment 2,
‘joe’ is segment 3

Does that make sense?

Happen that I need to keep the same structure of the old site, due to many external links.

I have to keep a permalink structure like this to display a list of people in our company:

/people/or /people/index.htm

and a permalink structure like this to display details of a given person.

/people/person_name or /people/person_name/index.htm

I have a template group named “people” and I handle everything via the index.html template.

The first condition is this:

{if segment_2 == "index.htm" OR segment_2 == ""}
 >> display the fixed page with company description and a dynamic code that list people
    {exp:channel:entries channel="people"}
        <a href="http://{path=people/{url_title}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">" alt=</a>
        <strong>{title}</strong>
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

in this case everything work fine if you specify /index.htm on the url, but if you have a permalink like http://www.example.com/people/ you get all person details.

this is the second condition, to handle a single person specification:

{if segment_2 != "index.htm" OR segment_2 != "" }

if I’m under a single person url, for example /people/person_name everything works fine. If I have /people/person_name/index.htm

I don’t get anything.
This is the code for the second condition:

{if segment_2 != "index.htm" OR segment_2 != "" }
{exp:channel:entries channel="people" entry_id="{segment_3}"}
{people_fields}
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

what is wrong?

Hi, milogdm -

The first step to troubleshooting a problem with conditionals is to echo the actual variables to the screen to see what EE is seeing.

Can you put into your template:

{segment_1}
{segment_2}
{segment_3}

and let us know the URL and the echo’d output?

Thanks!

Hi Lisa, and thanks for the reply.
I have resolved the issue with an {if segment_2="..."}...{if:else}...{/if} to get a reciprocal exclusion of the view I need.

Thank you

Glad Lisa was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post as as needed.