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Im trying to do something that should be quite simple.

At the bottom of my individual entry template, I have an embedded template. This template lists the 5 latest entries. I want it to exclude the current entry being viewed, but have not been able to do so.

I have tried passing along the entry_id to exclude:

{embed="boxes/latest-headlines" exclude={entry_id}}

No dice. I’ve also tried using the query module to no avail.

Any ideas as to how this might be accomplished?

Thanks

You need quotes around your embed variable:

{embed="site/export" the_id="{entry_id}"}

And then something like this for your other template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="weblog" entry_id="not {embed:the_id}" orderby="date"  limit="5" dynamic="off"}

Does that help?

Thanks for the reply, but that does not seem to work. Instead of the numeric entry_id being passed to the sub template, it passes the actual word “entry_id”. I verified this by using “{embed: exclude}” in my template. The output was “entry_id”.

Can you show us some more of your code? Also, what version and build of EE are you on?

Can you show us some more of your code? Also, what version and build of EE are you on?

I’m not sure what how much more of the code is applicable, but I’ll try. I’m running 1.6.5. Also tried it on a dev server running 1.6.6. Same problem.

I have a template to display a single entry.

{exp:weblog:entries require_entry="yes" weblog="blogname" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="on" limit="1" show_pages="no"}
Entry Data Here
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Below the entry data I have a box to display the 5 latest entries. I do not want to display the current entry.

{embed="boxes/latest-headlines" exclude="{entry_id}"}

Here is the code for the “Latest Headlines”

<div id="latest_headlines">
<h2>Latest Headlines</h2>
<p><ul><br />
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blogname" entry_id="not {embed:exclude}" orderby="date"  limit="5" dynamic="off" sort="desc"} <br />
        <li><a href="http://{path=/entry/{url_title}">{title}</a></li><br />
        </ul><br />
</div>

I think that gives a good indication of what I’m trying to do. It seems EE has a hard time passing along template variables to embedded templates.

Is the embed inside the weblog entries tag?

{exp:weblog:entries require_entry="yes" weblog="blogname" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="on" limit="1" show_pages="no"}
Entry Data Here
{embed="boxes/latest-headlines" exclude="{entry_id}"}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I’ve tried it inside and outside. Neither work. Outside of the entries tag, I entered in the template:

{entry_id}

.

The correct entry id appeared, leaving to me to believe that it was able to retrieve it inside or out. The problem seems t be in passing it along to the sub-template.

Let’s try to reduce this a bit.  In a barebone template, with the embed inside the weblog:entries tag, viewing a single entry url.  What do you get if you just output {embed:exclude} in your embed template?

What do you get if you just output {embed:exclude} in your embed template?

I get the ID. So that part works. The entries tag in the sub-template breaks as a result. Instead of 5 results, I get 1, and the link shows as {title} instead of the actual entry title.

I believe I got it working using the query module.

Glad you were able to figure it out. Don’t hesitate to post again if needed.

Now really closing this.