Including templates within templates - assigning variables

[spcherub]

I'm trying to learn the new mechanism that allows the inclusion of one template inside another. Here's what I have so far:

Template SubA consists of the following code:

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{content block="sub_a" label="sub_a" assign="sub_a"}

Template Main consists of the following code (simplified):

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{include file="cms_template:SubA}
{content}
{$sub_a}

I am not able to view the value of the variable $sub_a within the page that uses Main as a template - value is blank. What is the way to assign the content in one template to a variable that can be used in another after inclusion?

TIA
Sanjay

[Rolf]

http://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/smar ... e-examples

Grtz rolf

[spcherub]

@Rolf - thanks for the reference to global scope - very useful!

However, I tried the following (CMSMS v2.1.3) and still no dice:
Template SubA consists of the following code:

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{content block="sub_a" label="sub_a" assign="sub_a" scope=global}

Template Main consists of the following code (simplified):

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{include file="cms_template:SubA}
{content}
{$sub_a}

I'm still not seeing the content from the variable $sub_a even after declaring it global in scope.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Sanjay

[Jo Morg]

At this point we can only alter variable scopes on variables declarations only. So:

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{content block="sub_a" label="sub_a" assign="sub_a" scope=global}

won't work...

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{$sub_a="{content block='sub_a' label='sub_a'}" scope=global}

The above should work fine though.

[spcherub]

@Jo Morg - Thanks that fixed my problem.