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I’m using the latest build of EE2 and I’m running into an issue where I’m not able to reference the url_title of entries. If I specify the entry_id instead, everything works as it should. However, I want to create generic templates that I can reuse throughout the site.

Works:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{product_channel}" entry_id="{product_id}"}

Doesn’t work:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{product_channel}" url_title="{product_url_title}"}

I’ve also tried referencing {segment2} and {segment1} but that doesn’t work either. Any ideas on what might be happening. For this particular site, I’m using the Structure add-on. Could this be causing the issue? Anything I should try or another approach that might allow me to make generic templates that I can deploy over the site?

where {preload_replace:product_url_title="url_title"}

Hi, Matt. Are you always going to be passing in the url_title via segment_3? That’s normally how you do things. EE “sees” the third segment, and knows that is the url_title..

I’m not passing in the url_title via segment_3 now. I want to reference a specific url_title as a string. The url_title I’ll be referencing is in the location of productname here: site.com/products/productname. However, using either segment_2 or productname in the url_title parameter in exp:channel:entries does not work. I have to pass the entry_id for the encapsulated code to execute. However, there is no way that I know of to allow the entry_id parameter to be dynamic. The url_title can be dynamic if I reference segment_2. The weird thing is, my previous test builds of ee2 worked fine with passing in the url_title.

Not sure if I’m doing anything wrong on the EE2 side or if the Structure add-on is messing with my url_titles. I’m inclined to think the former because after the channel initiates, calling a url_title provides me with the exact string I was trying to pass it in the parameters.

Can you show us a little more of your code, perhaps a link? When you use {segment_2} and {segment_3} on their own in your template, do they show as expected?