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Hey guys

If I’m on site_a and I call in some entries from site_b, is there a way I can use the path global variable for site_b? For example this is a template on site_a:

{exp:channel:entries site="site_b" etc…
    <a href="http://{path=detail/{url_title}}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

On site_a that outputs site_a/detail/whatever instead of site_b/detail/whatever, which won’t work. I guess I could put the template in site_b and call it from there?

Hi Russ- can you try something like {comment_url_title_auto_path}?  Just make sure each site has correct paths for the individual channel settings and that should work for you.

Hadn’t thought of that, thanks. It works as I’m not using comments and can safely use it.

I’m doing this in an embed from Site A:

{embed="site_b:includes/.job-listing"  limit="3"}

As an embed is parsed before it is returned to the calling template I would expect the path variable to evaluate what’s in the Site B’s preferences, not Site A. If it was a snippet from Site B, fair enough, but this seems like a bug to me. Would you agree?

Ah- I do see your logic.  It wouldn’t have occurred to me, because I’m so used to how it does work.  But yes- I totally grok how you’d have the expectation you did.

What it boils down to is- it largely just pulls in the template and treats it as if you were embedding a template from the current site.  Which ... is actually how I expected it to work.  Ditto the use of the channel tag- if it’s being pulled into ‘A’ it works just like it would if it was on an ‘A’ template- so you’d need to use the site parameter if you were pulling in site B content- even if it’s in a site B template and being embeded.

So- I’d say it’s expected and thus not a bug.  But I can totally see how your expectations are reasonable.  Given it’s a bit of a toss up IMO, I think for consistency it doesn’t make sense to make such a significant change.

Make sense?  It’s working as designed, but how you thought it would work does make a lot of sense.

That view makes sense. Would it be possible and reasonable to somehow request the path from the other site? If you’re featuring content from one site with a view to linking to it, it makes sense to be able to link to the other site.

Hey Russ,

There’s not a way to have EE automatically return the the path or domain name from another MSM site like you’re looking for, but perhaps in the cases where you need that to happen, you could just use a user defined global variable instead. Have you given that a try?

Thanks Kevin

I could see how that would work but for now we’ve gone with the {comment_url_title_auto_path} option.

Hey Russ,

Good to see you have a solution that works for you!

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,