Modifying a template to suppress text in certain situations

Hi,

We have a template that will display an author’s article, and then any additional articles by that author.

<div class="author">
<h2>About the Author</h2>
<img src="[!GetField?&docid=`[*author_profile_id*]`&field=`author_image`!]" style="width:90px; float:left"/>
<p>[!GetField?&docid=`[*author_profile_id*]`&field=`content`!]</p>
<h4>Other Articles by [!GetField?&docid=`[*author_profile_id*]`&field=`pagetitle`!]:</h4>
<ul>[!Ditto?&display=`all`&tpl=`category_li`&filter=`author_profile_id,[*author_profile_id*],7`!]
</div><!--author-->
{{sidebar_right}}
</div>


What our client would like is that if there are no other articles, we don’t even display the text "Other Articles by author: No documents found."

http://captainscruffy.com/career/secrets-of-happy-prosperous-self-employment.html

How can I modify the above template code to achieve this?

Thanks, - Dave

create a &tplFirst=`first_category_li` for ditto and put the "Other Articles by author:" in there plus the same as you have in your category_li chunk
then use the &noResults=` ` (with space) in the ditto call and I think that you get the result you want.

Dimmy

Thanks for your reply. Since I am such a beginner at this, I have to ask what is probably going to be a very easy question. Regarding

> create a &tplFirst=`first_category_li` for ditto

What does that mean?

- Dave

now you have a chunk thats called category_li, right?
now create a duplicate of that chunk and add the title part to the top, the part that say’s: <h4>Other Articles by [!GetField?&docid=`[*author_profile_id*]`&field=`pagetitle`!]:</h4>

call that chunk first_category_li then add the above parameter to the ditto call: &tplFirst=`first_category_li`
your call will be like this:
[!Ditto?&display=`all`&tpl=`category_li`&tplFirst=`first_category_li` &filter=`author_profile_id,[*author_profile_id*],7`!]

thats it
now ditto wil take the first_category_li chunk to display the first item found and use the category_li chunk for the rest

Dimmy