Jsrender: Can't access a variable in {{for}}

[kojilab]

Hi Boris,

I am passing the following to the template
{'items': items, ranked: true}

items is an array of objects

In my template, I have

{{for items}}
{{if (ranked)}}{{:#index}}{{/if}}
{{/for}}

But it seems the variable 'ranked' doesn't do anything.

[BorisMoore]

Well within the {{for items}} the data context (current data item) is the item of the items array.
So you are testing for the an item with item.ranked == true. But your ranked property is on the object which has the items property, not on the item. Maybe you want

{{for items}}
   {{if #parent.parent.data.ranked)}}{{:#index}}{{/if}}
{{/for}}

Another approach you can use is to create a template variable which copies the ranked property and makes it accessible to the nested templates via the template context:

{{for items ~isRanked=ranked}}
   {{if ~isRanked)}}{{:#index}}{{/if}}
{{/for}}

Data properties are not automatically exposed in nested contexts. (There is no with (data) {} block in JsRender). But template parameters provides a better way to opt in to exposing variables to nested contexts...

[Krish2215]

I have a jquery datatable where I'm displaying child rows using js render. For both the columns on the table the data is coming from 2 different arrays. So how should I break the data into 2 separate rows which is currently displaying as comma separated list

[BorisMoore]

@Krish2215: This is for reporting bugs and other issues, not for general help questions. You could try stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jsrender. But you will need to give much more specific context, and ideally a jsfiddle to show your exact difficulty....