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I’m trying to display a different set of product attributes based on a condition. If weblog = something then show these attributes.  So I’m creating seperate templates that display summary information on the products.  I want to do the conditional and then display the summary code thats in the template.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="vector|helix|prism|matrix"   style="linear" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
{embed="embeds/vector_summary"}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Its does not seem to work.  It just displays the contents of the template instead of the value of the tags in the template.

vetor_summary Template used in the above embed.

<h2> {title}</h2>
<p>{product_thumbnail}<br />
Power Consumption:  {power_consumption}<br />
Number of LEDs:  {led_num}<br />
Designed to Replace:  {designed_to_replace}<br />
{spec_sheets}<br />
<a href="http://{url_title_path=products/detail}">View Product Details >> </a>

I cut and pasted the code in place of the embed and it works.  Fixing this helps me display certain product attributes for certain product line.  I can conditionally say, if product line = this then show this embed template to display the product.  Not all products have the same attributes but they have common ones.  So I am using one custom field group for all.  Can someone tell me why this wont work or a better approach?  thanks!

Hi, sleven1868.

Have you seen: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/embedding_templates.html ?

This information is for both EE1.x and EE2.x.

Hey Sue,

According to the link you posted, my code above should work.  But it doesn’t.  Am I missing something?

Hi sleven1868,

Embedded templates are processed and parsed separately so that means that in the example of your vetor_summary template above you would need a weblog:entries tag in order to parse the variables properly. The documentation that Sue linked to shows you how you can pass variables down to embedded templates in order to set the right weblog or entry_id.

Cheers

Greg