no_parents/no_results Using playa entry results based on a url segment, want to display no results

Question

I have a list that builds based on the URL segment. Sometimes there no entries for the segment and need to display "no results". I have tried several varations on this and nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions are greatly appriciated, thanks for looking.

I have tried to take this another direction and am tying to use {if no_parents} … {/if} variable.

However written like this it only shows up when there are results not when there is no results. Here is what my code looks like now

{exp:channel:entries 
   channel="my_child_channel"
   orderby="data_contact_last_name"
   sort="asc" 
   limit="3"
   }

     {exp:playa:parents 
     channel="mychannel" 
     field="my_field"
     var_prefix="my_var"
     }


        {if no_parents} no parent content {/if} 

        <!-- label -->  
        {if count == '1'} 
         <h4 class="f400m"><strong>{child:title}</strong></h4>  <!-- The title-->
        {/if}

            <h4><a href="{my_var:url_title}">{my_var:title}</a></h4>

   {/exp:playa:parents}

Earlier I tried this and what Jason suggested i also could not get to work.

{exp:channel:entries 
   channel="my_channel" 
   limit="3"
   }

   {exp:playa:parents 
      channel="my_parent_channel" 
      field="field_choice" 
      require_entry="yes"}

{if no_results}  <p>There are no entries available.</p>  {/if}

     {if count == '1'} 
         <h4>{child:title}</h4>
      {/if}

       <h4><a href="{url_title}">{title}</a></h4>

 {/exp:playa:parents}
{/exp:channel:entries} 

Answer 1

The if no_results is actually referencing the outer exp:channel:entries tag - basically an EE parse order issue.

To test inside playa, you need to use the var_prefix parameter... as in:

{exp:playa:parents var_prefix="my_var"}
{if my_var:no_results}
    //no results behaviour here
{/if}
{if my_var:count == '1'} 
     <h4 class="f400m"><strong>{child:title}</strong></h4>  <!-- The Str Discipline title-->
{/if}
{/exp:playa:parents}

The docs: https://docs.pixelandtonic.com/playa/templating/module/parents.html