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Hi guys,

I have a MSM Expression Engine install with 6 sites running, I have mananged to feed entries such as news posts through from the sub-sites to the main sites, however this has just linked back to the original post when clicked on.

I am trying to feed careers entries from a particular category on the main site to one of the sub-sites, I have achieved displaying them all but I can’t figure out how to display one entry fully when its clicked on as the post itself doesn’t exist on that particular site only on the main site.

Has anyone come across this before? It is perhaps something simple but I can’t figure it out.

Thanks,

Grant

Has no one come across this before? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Think of it this way - the posts don’t really exist on a front-end site. They exist in the EE database, code with a backend site ID of where they were entered.

If you want to display an entry on a site that it wasn’t entered on, you just need a single-entry template with a channel:entries tag coded with the correct parameters to pull that entry- usually just specifying the site parameter and reading the entry URL title from the URL.

Hi there, thanks for that.

I see what you mean but I can’t figure out how to pull that particular entry using the parameters,

‘usually just specifying the site parameter and reading the entry URL title from the URL.’

How would you be able to specify the entry URL title?

Thanks again.

Usually you link to a detail template using a variable like url_title_path in your index template. This puts the entry URL title in the URL so the channel:entries tag on the detail template can read it dynamically.

So you don’t specify it -  you link in such a way as to allow the EE code on the detail template to read it dynamically.