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Hi i want to use channel_short_name in a section of a template that’s not encompassed by the channel entries tags (and it shouldn’t be).

Is there a way or me to still get the value of channel_short_name there in an elegant way?

Right now im using…

{exp:channel:entries url_title="{segment_1}" disable="categories|category_fields|custom_fields|member_data|pagination"}{channel_short_name}{/exp:channel:entries}

Just to get that one value from channel entries, which is a bit overkill…

Isn’t segment_1 the same as the channel_short_name? Why not just use that…

No, I have a setup that doesn’t have the channel name in the url at all, so I can’t use that.

Hey Jan,

Can you give stash a try and let me know if it works for you?

Thank you,

Gave it a try…

{exp:channel:entries limit="1" disable="member_data|pagination|categories"}
  {exp:stash:set name="title"}{title}{/exp:stash:set}
{/exp:channel:entries}

{!--Now you can access like this in an embedded template or later in the parse order of the same template:--}
{exp:stash:get name="title"}

That doesn’t work outside of the exp:channel:entries tag for me

I also tried the string plugin but not working for this also

Hi, Jan -

As shane said, the Stash or String plugins are the ways to handle this.  If you’re having trouble getting one of those to work, I would recommend contacting the author of the add-on for assistance.

The other option here would be straight PHP, as it is not an EE feature at this time.