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In my training weblog I have defined the {lessonid} custom field.

In the following code…

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="training" category_group="2" style="linear"}

   In this weblog entries block this variable would get filled in: {lessonid}

    {reverse_related_entries}
       ... but now that I'm in the reverse_related_entries block this no longer gets filled in: {lessonid}
    {/reverse_related_entries}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Since that didn’t work, I tried to assign it to the on-page template variable {var_lessonid}

{assign_variable:var_lessonid="{lessonid}"}

Lesson ID: {var_lessonid} # this gets echoed properly

{reverse_related_entries}
    Lesson ID: {var_lessonid} # this does not get echoed  properly. the variable is blank.
{/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.

{var_lessonid} displays outside the block, but does not display inside.

Then I tried assigning a non-custom-field-based value to {var_lessonid}...

If I change the above code to ...

{assign_variable:var_lessonid="test"}

    Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}

{reverse_related_entries}

    Lesson ID: {var_lessonid}

{/reverse_related_entries}

... ‘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?

How can I get the parent’s custom fields to pass into a {reverse_related_entries} block?