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Hi,

I am looking for a way to have a category id stored in a variable that I can use in multiple places around the site. The reason, I am marking products with a model year using categories, when the model year changes I would like to be able to change 1 var and have it roll across the site.

{exp:channel:entries channel="bike_families" dynamic="no" category="{current-product-year}&8" disable="member_data|category_fields|trackbacks|"}

I would like to be able to call it in channel entries like above.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Cory

Hi, CG11 -

Have you considered storing that information in a snippet?

That worked thank you. I am still a bit confused about when to use snippets 😊

Let’s say you’ve got a chunk of code from several different templates that’s all exactly the same. It’d be great to have that chunk of code in one spot where it can be updated and those changes reflected in all the templates that hold that code, right? That’s exactly what Snippets are for. (They help you keep your template code DRY!)

Thanks Kevin, I am actually using Stash to acheive Dry development. It is very similar to Twig and Django which is where I came from but I am not sure the benefits to using snippets versus using embeds or stashing. I also find it kind of weird that I can’t put snippets into files.

-Cory

Hey Cory,

There are a few add-ons that let you save snippets as files too.

Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,