How to call a dynamic dataset field on Velo?

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Hi,
I have a Dynamic dataset
On the Title pages I have a video player (Youtube) that is connected to a url field on the dataset (the field is named youtubeLink .
I want hide the video player and show it only if the URL field is not empty.

I tried this code below, but the field key youtubeLink is not being recognized, I feel like I’m not writing the code correctly, maybe because it’s a dynamic dataset it should be set differently?

$w . onReady ( function () {
$w ( ‘#dynamicDataset’ ). onReady ( () => {
if ( $w ( ‘#youtubeLinkfield’ ). text === “” ) {
$w ( ‘#videoPlayer1’ ). hide ();
} else {
$w ( ‘#videoPlayer1’ ). show ();
}
} );
});

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Hi Shirli,

Here is how to achieve this:

  1. In the url field in your collection, in the items where you don’t have videos add a dummy place holder url. something like: ’ http://placeholder.com ’

  2. In the code you need to use the getCurrentItem function to get the data and then check it looks something like this (videosrc is the name of the url field) :

$w . onReady ( function () {
$w ( ‘#dynamicDataset’ ). onReady (()=>{
let currentItem = $w ( ‘#dynamicDataset’ ). getCurrentItem ();
console . log ( currentItem )
if ( currentItem . videosrc === ‘http://placeholder.com’ ){

    $w ( '#videoPlayer1' ). hide (); 
}

})
});

3

@idoh You’ve just made my day so much brighter!!!
Thanks so much, it worked! :grin:

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@shirilipinsky Your Welcome, Glad I could help!