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while trying other stuff to get this working, i tried this:

{assign_variable:var_lessonid="{lessonid}"}
Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}
{reverse_related_entries orderby="itemsort"}
Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}
{/reverse_related_entries}

as you can see, i set a variable to equal the value of the {lessonid} custom field. then i echoed that variable, opened a reverse_related_entries block and echoed it again.

the variable displays outside the block, but does not display inside.

why can’t i use variables inside a reverse related entries block that were defined outside of it?

even stranger…

it appears as though only custom fields don’t get passed through into the reverse_related_entries block.

if i change the above code to ...

{assign_variable:var_lessonid="test"}
Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}
{reverse_related_entries orderby="itemsort"}
Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}

... ‘test’ gets output both inside and outside the block as expected. why isn’t a custom field passed to a variable getting through to the inside of a reverse_related_entries block, but a plain text string is?