else_if
Tag has been created to unclutter conditional statements. It must be self-closed.
<cms:else_if />
Example
<cms:if condition1 >
<cms:else_if condition2 />
<cms:else />
</cms:if>
Same structure with a more ‘grounded’ example —
<cms:if day = 'Saturday' || day = 'Sunday' >
Hooray, it's a weekend!
<cms:else_if day = 'Friday' />
Uff, last day of work!
<cms:else />
Keep going. Don't look back!
</cms:if>
With the current logic tags (cms:if and cms:else) it isn’t uncommon to find oneself in a rather ‘heavily-nested’ situation. A lot of screen space is lost in the text editor and, more importantly, it can also make reading code somewhat challenging. Let’s use Couch’s standard view handling as an example:
<cms:if k_is_page >
Page
<cms:else />
<cms:if k_is_home >
Home
<cms:else />
<cms:if k_is_folder >
Folder
<cms:else />
Archive
</cms:if>
</cms:if>
</cms:if>
While embedding snippets certainly helps to alleviate some of the aforementioned problems, it isn’t always an appropriate solution.
The addition of cms:else_if tag to the suite of logic tags now transforms the previous code example to:
<cms:if k_is_page >
Page
<cms:else_if k_is_home />
Home
<cms:else_if k_is_folder />
Folder
<cms:else />
Archive
</cms:if>
Parameters
Same as if.
Variables
This tag does not set any variables of its own.