topic Re: Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index in CMS Development

Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index

InciteJoe — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:09:27 GMT

I have put a custom variable into a blog post template

{% text "landing-page-url" label='Landing Page URL', value='www.google.com' %}

And on the blog index page I am trying to get the value of the landing page set in the blog post.

<a class="cta-primary-outline" href="{{ widgets.landing-page-url.body.value }}">Continue Reading</a>

I have looked in the Developer Info tab and the landing-page-url is in here. Which is inside of contents.

When I attempt to print the value it returns "0".

Any help would be appreciated

Re: Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index

JasonRosa — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:48:57 GMT

I'd try using {{ content.widgets.landing-page-url.body.value }} on the listing page and that should work. Let me know if you're having any trouble after trying that!

Re: Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index

InciteJoe — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:45:50 GMT

Thanks for your response Jason, it still seems to be returning 0 as the value

Re: Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index

JasonRosa — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:26:27 GMT

@InciteJoe got it! It looks like the post variable isn't set to export to template context = True (detailed information on this here: http://designers.hubspot.com/docs/hubl/export-to-template-context). Try switching the post to:

{% text "landing-page-url" label="Landing Page URL", value="www.google.com", export_to_template_context=True %}

Then on the listing page try this again:

Re: Getting value of blog post custom variable on blog index

InciteJoe — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:41:52 GMT

Thanks! This makes a lot of sense