Playa inside channel entries

Question

I have a home channel in which I want to display various Playa fields bringing entries in from other channels. It's tricky though, home is a listing item as it will change everyday (Note the start and stop). The information Playa brings in is also from a listing.

{exp:channel:entries channel="home" limit="1" start_on="{current_time format="%Y-%m-%d 00:00"}" stop_before="{current_time format="%Y-%m-%d 23:59"}"}

{exp:playa:children channel="articles" field_id="18" parse="inward"}
{title}
{/exp:playa:children}

{/exp:channel:entries}

The problem here is that the Playa field always shows the title from the home listing, not the article listing even though I specified the channel in the Playa field. From looking at the Playa docs, this should work fine. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Have you tried the simple fieldtype tag pair for the playa child entries loop to see if that returns the data you're looking for?

{cf_your_playa_field_short_name}
  {title}
{/cf_your_playa_field_short_name}

Answer 2

Not sure I get it but I'll take a shot. parse=inward is not needed here, nor is the field_id I don't think. Also, I would use single quotes inside double quotes to avoid parsing problems. The following code should work provided that:

• a home entry is displayed by the outer channel entries tag
• you have entries belonging to the "articles" channel that are playa children of the "home" entry and that have a status of "open"

Could you give it a try?

{exp:channel:entries channel="home" limit="1" start_on="{current_time format='%Y-%m-%d 00:00'}" stop_before="{current_time format='%Y-%m-%d 23:59'}"}

    <h1>home entry title: {title}</h1>
    {exp:playa:children channel="articles"}
        <h2>article entry title: {title}</h2>
    {/exp:playa:children}

{/exp:channel:entries}