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I have a weblog whose entries relate to another weblog.  Is there anyway for me to take the title from the related entry weblog and store it as a variable? 

Here was my first shot at it:

{related_entries id="prod_container_issue"}
   {assign_variable: issue_title="{title}"}
{/related_entries}

However I can’t seem to access the newly created {issue_title} variable.  Does anyone have any ideas or advice?

Thanks.

The assign_variable call won’t work; due to the processing order that EE parses pages.  Assigning variables is done very, very early in the parsing process, long before any weblog tags are used. 

I assume you have looked over the documentation for the related entries tag here.  You can access the {title} variable directly inside the {related_entries} tag pair—is that what you need, or are you somehow trying to use the related entries {title} outside the related entries tag? 

I think if the latter is true, you have to use php inside your templates.

Vanceone, I have looked over the documentation.  I’m trying to use the {title} variable outside the {related_entries} tag pair and in a conditional statement.  It’s looking like I may have to use php to accomplish this.  I was hoping to avoid that due to my limited knowledge of php. 

Thanks for the help and if you have any ideas I’m all ears.

I figured it out.  Sort of.

Here is what’s in the first template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="prod_container" dynamic="on" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="15"}
    
    <h1>{title}</h1>
    {if prod_container_tagline}
        <h2>{prod_container_tagline}</h2>
<p>    {/if}<br />
    <br />
    {if prod_container_summary}<br />
        <br />
            {prod_container_summary}<br />
        <br />
    {/if}<br />
    {embed="products/listings" issue="{related_entries id="prod_container_issue"}{entry_id}{/related_entries}" page="{prod_container_page}"}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

And here is what is in the embedded template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="prod_listing" orderby="date" sort="asc"}

<?php
$listing_issue = "{related_entries id="prod_listing_issue"}{entry_id}{/related_entries}";
$container_issue = "{embed:issue}";

if ($listing_issue == $container_issue)
{
?>

{if prod_listing_page == "{embed:page}"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p>{prod_listing_des}<br />
{/if}</p>

<p><?php<br />
}<br />
?></p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

The new problem is if I add the URL Title to the URL string it’s displaying the info from the entry in the prod_container weblog but none of the entries from the embedded template pulling from prod_listing.

Does anyone have any ideas?