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Photo of Long Pham

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Accessing Child Content Channel Items from Parent Channel Item using Lava

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I'm trying to get the child content channels within the for loop of parent channels. I'm referencing item.ChildItems doesn't work.

If I do this -

{% for item in Items %}

    {% assign childItem = item.ChildItems | First | Property:'ContentChannelItem' %}

    {% chiIdtem.Id %}

{% endfor %}

The childItem.Id is the ID of the parent channel object, not of any children.

I also tried using item.ChildContentChannelItems but that doesn't work either. 

Are there any documentation about this ? Thanks for viewing !

  • Photo of Daniel Hazelbaker

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    In this case, you will want `{% assign childItem = item.ChildItems | First | Property:'ChildContentChannelItem' %}`

    The "ChildItems" and "ParentItems", despite the names, don't actually point to the items but to a "helper" object that has the parent (ContentChannelItem) and the child (ChildContentChannelItem).

    If you want to loop over all the child items I think you can do:

    {% assign childItems = item.ChildItems | Select:'ChildContentChannelItem' %}
    {% for child in childItems %}
        ...
    {% endfor %}

  • Photo of Long Pham

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    Got it, I was close !  :)  Thanks, Daniel.