I display upcoming events like this: {{ range where .Site.Recent "Section" "events" }} {{ if (ge .Date.Unix .Now.Unix) }} {{ template "events/li.html" . }} {{ end }} {{ end }} What I’m not sure how to do is specify what Hugo should do if there are no upcoming events. It doesn’t look like w…

This is a limitation with Go’s templates. But Hugo should have a way around it. I have been nagged by this a couple times, and started to think about a patch - a kind of writeable page context that also could be used inside partials and shortcode templates used on a page. Maybe I should pick up on…

See [image] Adding writable context See: This is work in progress (or: it works fine, but missing tests and polish, and I wanted to discuss the API here). I’ve missed something similar to this, and I have seen others shouting out about this too. Due to a limitation in Go templates,... …

I saw that Scratch just got added to the master branch, but I can’t seem to get it to work: {{ .Scratch.Set "upcoming" false }} {{ range where .Site.Recent.ByDate "Section" "events" }} {{ if (ge .Date.Unix .Now.Unix) }} {{ .Scratch.Set "upcoming" true }} {{ template "events/li.html" . }} …

Yes - the “dot” scope has changed. In the internal range you are using “another scratch”. Do this: {{ $node := . }} {{ $node.Scratch.Set ... }} Etc. Scratch works, but you still have to think about scopes.

Or: You can use the magic $: {{ $.Scratch.Set ... }} and get ... Will update the documentation about this.

Does $.Scratch doesn’t work in Shortcode templates? I am getting below error : <$.Scratch.Add>: Scratch is not a field of struct type *hugolib.ShortcodeWithPage

In shortcode, try: {{ .Page.Scratch.Add ... }} Or {{ $.Page.Scratch.Add ... }} $ refers to the “topmost” variable in a template. In a shortcode that is ShortcodeWithPage, which contains a Page.

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