Send entry_id to an embed outside of a {exp:channel:entries) tag

What are you trying to do with the entry ID?

The entry_id is sent to seo_lite to produce the correct HYML title tag. The code that calls seo_lite is in the layout template. If I put the layout template inside the {exp:channel:entries} ta, I get a blank screen.

Ah OK I’d do it a different way using a layout variable.

So in your channel entries tag use a layout:set tag to set the entry ID value:

{exp:channel:entries channel="yourchannel" ...}

<!-- get the entry ID and set the layout:set tag with name 'the_id'-->
{layout:set name="the_id"}{entry_id}{/layout:set}

<!-- entry fields-->
<h1>{title}</h1>

...etc

{/exp:channel:entries}

The layout:set tag essentially passes its value to the layout template to use as you need.

Then, assuming your SEO_lite tag is in your layout template, call the layout set value like this:

{exp:seo_lite entry_id="{layout:the_id}"}

Does that help?

Sorry it doesn’t.

{layout="_embeds/_html-layout" entry_id="{entry_id}”}

{exp:channel:entries channel="products|projects" status="not closed" limit="1" disable="member_data|category_fields"}

That is the top of my entry template. Notice the layout call is outside the exp:channel:entries tag. If I use that code, the entry_id sent to the layout is blank. If I hard code the number, as in “{layout="_embeds/_html-layout" entry_id="613"}”, it works with that entry id. I need to know how to access the entry_id outside the exp:channel:entries tag.