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Hi there,

I have a page at the URL

<a href="http://www.example.com/sub/page">http://www.example.com/sub/page</a>

The is page has two columns; page content and the right hand sidebar

* The page content pulls in content from the “pages” channel
* The right hand sidebar pulls in entries from the “news” channel

If I view the page as a preview i.e…

http://www.example.com/home/preview (where home is my template group and preview is my template)

...then I can see the news coming in from the sidebar (the page displays properly).

If I then navigate to the URL I set for the page (http://www.example.com/sub/page) then the sidebar doesn’t pull in the news entries (i.e. title and date).

So it works if I view it in the template, but not at the URL I specify.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Gregor

More info:

v2.3.0 - Build: date 20111011

Side bar code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" status="open" limit="3"}
   <a href="http://{site_url}news/article/{url_title}">{title}</a>
   {entry_date format="%d %F"} | {author}
  {/exp:channel:entries}

Hi gregormck,

You cant using

{site_url}news/article/{url_title}

because you want render dynamic URI

Try using this

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" status="open" limit="3"}
   <a href="http://{url_title_path=news/article}">{title}</a>
   {entry_date format="%d %F"} | {author}
{/exp:channel:entries}

EE will render dynamic URI for you!

Another choice, the best way you should insert dynamic=“no”, because with this parameter your sidebar will not be effected with URI in current entry:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" status="open" limit="3" dynamic="no"}
   <a href="http://{url_title_path=news/article}">{title}</a>
   {entry_date format="%d %F"} | {author}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Hope this help!

Hi there gregormck,

I think if you set the dynamic= parameter on your sidebar template’s channel entries tag, you’ll get what you are looking for. What you are seeing here is that both templates are looking to the URL for information about what entries to display. The sidebar isn’t finding anything in its channel based on the URL, and is therefore returning no results. Setting dynamic=“no” for that channel will tell ExpressionEngine to ignore the URL and just use the information provided in the tag parameters.

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" status="open" limit="3" dynamic="no"}
   <a href="http://{site_url}news/article/{url_title}">{title}</a>
   {entry_date format="%d %F"} | {author}
  {/exp:channel:entries}

Cheers!