Passing Scratch flags between shortcodes

support
2

This was a long and puzzling post …

In general:

  • .Page.Scratch is Page scoped, ie. available for all shortcodes in the same page.
  • Shortcodes are rendered inside out, so you cannot get a scratch var from the outer shortcode before it is executed … If that made sense in an Einsteinian way …

There is also this:

{{ with .Parent }}
{{ .Scratch ... }}
{{ end

I’m not sure that covers all your questions, but $.Page.Scratch.Add will never point to a shortcode’s scratch.

But in general, I think you use scratch where you should really use shortocde parameters.