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Expression Engine to get FIRSTLINKEDENTITY of a parent link type
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Who would benefit? |
People wanting to access field values from the parent entity |
What impact would it make? |
Ability to retrieve values from a parent entity |
How should it work? |
FIRSTLINKEDENTITY to take an optional second parameter so that parent links (incoming) can be processed. FIRSTLINKEDENTITY("Field1","inbound") |
Why is it needed? |
FIRSTLINKEDENTITY only works on child linked entities |
Additional feedback, background or context:
The processing for traversing the link is likely to be detrimental to performance. Please see my DELAY() idea to offset this.