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I’m stumped.

Its been a while since I added this to a site, but don’t remember having this issue before.

{exp:channel:next_entry channel="{embed:host_language_channel_name}" category="{embed:cat_id}"}
    next entry: <a href="http://{path=site/comments}">{title}</a> »
{/exp:channel:next_entry}

channel="{embed:host_language_channel_name}" category="{embed:cat_id}" entry_id="{segment_4}"

{exp:channel:prev_entry channel="galleries" category="11"}
    « previous image: <a href="http://{path=site/comments}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:prev_entry}

I have some check-code in the middle of the two tag-pairs to make sure that all the info the tags should need are available within the template they are in.

I’m wondering if EE is checking segment_3 for the entry_id and if that’s why it’s not working? In our site, the entry_id is in segment_4, but it is the last segment of the URI, so I would hope EE could handle that.

The tags are outside of a channel tag.

I’ve even hard-coded the channel and category and that’s not helped.

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Hi, Kurt.

Can you tell us what the url looks like: In other words, what is in segment_3?

The next step would be to create a new single entry template and hard code the values you have now as embeds..

Hi Sue,

I’ve already tried the “next-step” you mention…. and its not liking it.

Here’s a URI:

index.php/galleries/iraq/baghdad-portrait-studio/36/

Here’s what you’re looking at:

site_index/template_group/category_url_title/entry_url_title/entry_id/

I know EE would typically be expecting something a little different, but with the ID still in the last segment, I sort of thought this would still work.

If we used the category_indicator in a segment, that would push the entry ID out to segment_4 wouldn’t it? (I’ve never actually used it, but my understanding of it is that it would).

Hi, Kurt,

EE looks for the entry_id or url_title in segment_2 or segment_3; not in the last segment.  So yes, what you’re seeing is expected behavior.  It’s one of the difficulties with “rolling your own” for the URLs at this point in time.

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the confirmation.

We have the entry’s url_title in segment_3, so something else we’re doing must be tripping up EE. Guess I’ll get to write a custom query or two for this, or maybe there’s an add-on… I’ll look around.

Having you confirm that this is expected behavior (and not a bug or something) is most helpful because I’ll stop trying to make it work. ;~D

Have a great week!

Thanks Kurt. 😉 I’m going to close this thread but don’t hesitate to drop us a line if something else comes up.