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I forgot how to embed a file and still have the custom field variables work for that entry. I know it is because of the parsing order, buy can someone remind me? Here is a simplified example:

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

  <div id="contentarea">
  

     {embed="includes/sidebar"}

   </div>
  <!-- /content -->
    
{/exp:channel:entries}

Inside sidebar I would have calls to fields, like so:

<h1>{title}</h1>
<h2>{trip_type}</h2>

Simple enough:

{embed="includes/sidebar" the_title="{title}” the_trip_type=”{trip_type}”}

Then in the sidebar template:

<h1>{embed:the_title}</h1>

{embed:the_trip_type}

You can do the same thing for any custom field or value you want to “declare” in one template in the embed tag to pass into the embedded template for use within the embedded template.

Cheers,
John

That isn’t an elegant solution. I simplified the example but in reality there are many custom fields that would need to get passed in that way. I just ended up using the channel tag pair in the embed. I thought there could be a way to avoid having to put the tag pair in multiple locations.