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Using mt:if to put in text if no entries in a category

By dglasser13 on Apr 19, 2009 at 9:06 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

Hi all - I appreciate any assistance with this.

I'm trying to use the mt:if tag to put in text if there are no entries in a category at a given time. 

<mt:Entries category="Upcoming Events">
<mt:If tag="entriescount" eq="0">
<h3>There are no upcoming events at this time.</h3>
</mt:If>
<h3><mt:EntryTitle /></h3>
<mt:EntryBody />
</mt:Entries>

This hasn't been working and just leaves me with a area where the text should be. Any thoughts?

-Daniel

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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    Author Profile Page Su | April 19, 2009 11:16 AM | Reply

    That's because EntriesCount will never return zero.

    Do this instead:

    <mt:Entries category="Upcoming Events">
<h3><mt:EntryTitle /></h3>
<mt:EntryBody />
<mt:Else>
<h3>There are no upcoming events at this time.</h3>
</mt:Else>
</mt:Entries>

    (For the record, I still disagree with that assessment, but have more immediate fights to tend to at the moment.)

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    Author Profile Page dglasser13 | April 19, 2009 11:54 AM | Reply

    Ah, good to know. That seems to have worked. Appreciate the help!

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