Playa Multiple Fields Parameter

Question

If I am using playa to output the relationships from 2 fields:

{exp:playa:children field="employee_board_memberships|employee_investments"}
    ...
{/exp:playa:children}

Is there any way inside of the loop to identify which (or both) fields the entry is coming from?

{exp:playa:children field="employee_board_memberships|employee_investments"}
    {if from_employee_board_memberships}
        This was from the employee_board_memberships field
    {/if}

    {if from_employee_investments}
        This was from the employee_investments field
    {/if}
{/exp:playa:children}

Answer 1

The answer is No. {exp:playa:children} just figures out the IDs of the entries that should be output, and passes them + the inner template code to Channel->entries(), which handles actually grabbing the entries and parsing the template code. So there’s no way for Playa to tell it to add any extra per-entry variables into the mix. (This is why the {parent:xyz} and {child:xyz} values only work if you’re grabbing the children/parents of a single entry at a time.)

Answer 2

Ended up solving this a different way. I stashed the IDs for each relationship and then did a regex match with switchee:

{!-- Store the ids for the playa company relationships --}
{exp:stash:set name="board_memberships_ids" parse_tags="yes"}
    ,{employee_board_memberships:child_ids delimiter=","},
{/exp:stash:set}

{exp:stash:set name="investments_ids" parse_tags="yes"}
    ,{employee_investments:child_ids delimiter=","},
{/exp:stash:set}

{!-- Set the related companies list --}
{exp:playa:children field="employee_board_memberships|employee_investments"}
    {exp:stash:append_list name="employees_companies" parse_tags="yes"}
        {stash:item_class}
            {switchee variable="stash:board_memberships_ids" parse="inward"}
                {case value="#,{entry_id},#"}board-members{/case}
            {/switchee}

            {switchee variable="stash:investments_ids" parse="inward"}
                {case value="#,{entry_id},#"}investments{/case}
            {/switchee}

            {if company_investment_stage == "public"}ipos{/if}

            {if company_investment_stage == "acquired-merged"}acquisitions{/if}
         {/stash:item_class}
        {stash:item_sort}{title}{/stash:item_sort}
        {stash:item_content}
            <a href="/portfolio/{url_title}" class="modal-trigger">{title}</a>
        {/stash:item_content}
    {/exp:stash:append_list}
{/exp:playa:children}

Answer 3

You should be able to get by easily by using the following:

{exp:playa:children field="employee_board_memberships|employee_investments"}
    {if employee_board_memberships}
        This was from the employee_board_memberships field
    {/if}

    {if employee_investments}
        This was from the employee_investments field
    {/if}
{/exp:playa:children}

… shouldn’t you? You’re in essence just testing whether or not that child has either of those fields filled out, so it should return the code you want. You don’t need the from_ in your example code.

Answer 4

This is untested, but maybe try using the var_prefix and nest the {exp:playa:children} tags like so:

{exp:playa:children field="employee_board_memberships" var_prefix="ebm"}
    {exp:playa:children field="employee_investments" var_prefix="ei"}
    {if ebm:title}
        This was from the employee_board_memberships field
    {/if}

    {if ei:title}
        This was from the employee_investments field
    {/if}
    {/exp:playa:children}
{/exp:playa:children}