Hey Brian,

First off, thanks for the addon. It’s the best I’ve seen so far when it comes to workflow and multi-lingual entries. I’ve ran into an issue where I’m trying to use Matrix’s

{field:total_rows}

tag. ExpressionEngine does not call Matrix to parse it’s fields if the field’s column in exp_channel_data is empty. It seems like Publisher is not populating this field. When I uninstall publisher and re-save the entry, that field is populated and the total_rows tag works. With Publisher enabled, the field is not populated and the total_rows tag does not work.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Matrix and Publisher
2. Create a field group with a single matrix field. Specific columns don’t matter. I have Assets and a few text columns.
3. Publish a new entry with one row in the matrix.
4. In your template, do something like this:

[code}
{if "{layout_gencon_feature:total_rows}” > 0}
  it works!
{/if}

The conditional should never fire because the output of that template tag is blank.