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So I have this page located Here. It’s supposed to pull in a list of courses with the “class type” as “Guest Series” which is set in the blog entry itself.  It’s then supposed to order them by expiration date and then sort ascending.  The problem is, the switch statement is being done before it pulls out the unnecessary entries (ones that aren’t guest series), so we end up with rows the same color and not the desired zebra effect. 

It works fine if I don’t use the orderby=“expiration_date” sort=“asc”.  The code is below.

NOTE: I think the only reason the “Past Sessions” is alternating correctly is because there aren’t enough past classes yet to throw off the order.

Yes, the conditional will simply hide that information, switch will still include it in its switching.  You could use the search: parameter to limit by that custom field, instead, which would work.

Any ideas as to how I’d go about setting that up?  Or why the switch still includes things that should be excluded?

Well, just to clarify - sort and orderby are not the problem.  The problem is the conditional.  Here is how it works:

Parameters - limit and change the output immediately
Conditionals - Hide or change the output after the fact

The problem here is that your conditionals are simply hiding information - it’s still being processed, so your switch is still going through that data. 

What I think you want is to limit by custom field, which means you want the search:// parameter =)

Wow, that worked perfectly.  And to think I didn’t even know about search before.  Very nice.  Thanks for helping me out again!

search: was introduced in 1.6.1, so it’s fairly new.  Pretty neat, eh? =)  Glad you got it working!