I'm an EE novice working on a big site. I have a configuration concept in my head and I want to know if it's doable. Please bear with my limited knowledge of EE lingo. I'm still learning.
So I have a channel Speaker whose channel fields include Name, Topic, Bio, etc. I have another channel Multimedia which includes many of the same kinds of channel fields: Title, Subtitle, Description, etc.
We have speakers come in regularly and give a presentation. We create their Speaker entry long before their event. After the event we produce a video and create the Multimedia entry for that event. We do multimedia for other types of events which is why we don't just have a multimedia channel field in the Speaker channel.
Is there a way for me to add a Playa channel field to Multimedia, connecting a Multimedia entry to a Speaker entry, and then populate the template with Speaker info?
Something like this (this is again, theoretical, but if you feel the need to correct my syntax, go right ahead):
{exp:channel:entries channel="Multimedia"}
{if playa_field}
{playa_field}
<h1>{speaker_name}</h1>
<h2>{speaker_topic}</h2>
<p>{speaker_bio}</p>
{/playa_field}
{if:else}
<h1>{media_title}</h1>
<h2>{media_subtitle}</h2>
<p>{media_desc}</p>
{/if}
<video src="{media_url}">Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video.</video>
{/exp:channel:entries}
(edit: removed a redundant {/if} thanks to syntax correction in comments)
