"row_id" on Playa field not working

Question

I'm trying to get the current "row_id" of a Playa entry, but it doesn't seem to want to output.

I'm prefixing it because there was another plugin that was conflicting with the {count} and {total_results} variables.

So my code looks like this:

{cf_course_content var_prefix="q" limit="1" offset="{course_progress_id}"}
     {q:count}
     {q:total_results}
     {q:row_id}
     {q:cf_question_type}
{/cf_course_content}

But when this is rendered, it looks like this:

1
15
{row_id}
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Why would it output like that? When all the other prefixed variables are working. I've pulled this outside of any other plugins / modules just incase anything was clashing and it still does this.

I've also been doing a bit of digging, and i'm not sure if "row_id" is what I need to output anyway.

I'm trying to get the "Row Position" inside the Playa field. But I believe the "row_id" is a unique reference from the DB? Not Unique to that particular entry.

Is there any way to output this, or get around the "row_id" problem?

Answer 1

{row_id} is a Matrix tag. Playa doesn’t know anything about it. To get the current entry’s position within the Playa field, just use {count} (or {q:count} since you’ve got that var_prefix param.