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I’ve created a custom field in my channel that holds a text entry that is the name of a channel.

I want to put this variable to use in the {exp:channel:categories} tag and use it as the value of channel=”“.

However, that tag is out of my initial entries loop, so that variable is not making it down to the categories tag, or this option doesn’t work (I can’t tell). Anyone have any insight?

Thanks.

Hi nicktpw,

Can you share what you have so far?

You can pass items from a channel entries loop into an embed if that helps

Something like this where the channelname parameter is something you come up with.

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="1"}

{embed="includes/cat" channelname="{your_custom_field}"}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Then in your embed

{exp:channel:categories channel="{embed:channelname}"}
<a href="http://{path=channel/index}">{category_name}</a>
{if category_description}{category_description}{/if}
{/exp:channel:categories}

Does that help?