Inside Playa {if no_coparents}, display channel entries

Question

I have a channel entries tag which displays Videos and then a playa pair tag (coparents) which displays related videos based on a specific field.

Now, I would like to display other videos (let's say the last two entries of the "video" channel) in case no related videos are found. I tried with {if no_coparents}...{/if} but no luck so far since I don't manage to display video channel entries inside those tags.

{exp:channel:entries channel="video" url_title="{segment_3}" limit="1" status="open" transcribe="disable"}
  <h1>{title}</h1>
  {video_file}
  {video_description}

  <div class="block-related three columns">
    <h2 class="first-title">Related Videos</h2>
    {exp:playa:coparents channel="video" field="video_related_field" dynamic="no" limit="2"}
      <div>
        <h4>{title}</h4>
        <div>
          <a href="#">
            {if video_flickr_thumbnail}
            <img src="{video_flickr_thumbnail}" alt="{title}">
            {if:elseif video_thumbnail}
            <img src="{video_thumbnail}" alt="{title}">
            {/if}
          </a>
        </div>
      </div>
    {/exp:playa:coparents}

{!-- Now here I would like to get something in case there isn't any related video.
It would be great if I could just call {exp:channel:entries channel="video"}
to retrieve the last two videos. I tried with {if no_coparents} ... {/if}
but no luck so far. --}

  </div>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Answer 1

Macxim - I just tested {if no_coparents} with great success here:

{exp:channel:entries limit="10"}
<h1>{title}</h1>
{exp:playa:coparents}
{if no_coparents}
no coparents
{/if}
parent entry id: {parent:entry_id}<br />
{/exp:playa:coparents}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Can I ask you to try this code in a template and see what results you get? Just copy/paste the above into a template. You may need a few recent tests with coparents and without. I made this as minimal as possible to test it.

Please let me know if that helps!

Answer 2

You'll have to embed your alternative Channel Entries loop in this case.

{exp:playa:coparents channel="video" field="video_related_field" dynamic="no" limit="2"}
    <!-- snip -->
    {if no_coparents}
        {embed="videos/_related"}
    {/if}
{/exp:playa:coparents}