Answered Extended Profile placeholder and TV

I'm using some placeholders as part of member extended profile. They work ok but I need more flexibility over their output, like what's possible with a TV. So I'm wondering if it's possible to pass the value of a placeholder to a TV so I can tap into the flexibility/options a TV offers?

I'm not clear on what you would gain from that over putting the HTML you want in the template, page content, or a chunk. Can you give an example of what you want to do?

For example, using a placeholder as a link.

This works perfectly because the 'website' placeholder is required thus it will always have a value. But other placeholders are optional so if they don't have a value then a hard-coded link will still show link text, except that it goes nowhere.

Using a TV neatly skirts that problem since I can set the TV > Output Options > URL > Display Text field to whatever I want, and if there is no placeholder value to use then there won't be a dead link, it'll just be an empty field which is ideal.

I don't use TVs for stuff like that (actually, I almost never use them at all), so I'm not sure how URL TVs work, but wouldn't you get this as a result of the TV if there's no URL?:



You probably know this, but you can do the same thing with something like this:

Your example is very close, but even when there is no value the link text (e.g. My Website) is still being rendered. Shouldn't the "else" take care of that too?

[ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 6 months ago.]

Can you paste your tag here? If the placeholder is empty, there should be no output at all.

Here's an example:
I have an optional (Profile) placeholder named [[+twitter]].

Even without a value the link text (Twitter) is still rendered.

I probably have it wrong, I never use conditional output modifiers.


Try it this way:


Actually, the If snippet may be a better choice here (though you have to install it). It would look something like this:

Neither one quite works.

Your alternate code still outputs link text for an empty placeholder.

And the If snippet output is always blank, even if a placeholder value does exist.

I must be missing something obvious and simple.