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Parent Variables of a Slot Within A Slot

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Request: To allow variables that are parents of a slot to be accessible within a slot.

Is this technically feasible?

I'm messing with resources in prep for CMS and realizing how much my posts benefit from slots but I'll have to do without as of now

5 comments

OOleg Isonen

content in slots can't have access to variables outside, because these may not exist depending on where slot is used cc @TrySound

can you describe the exact situation? maybe we have an idea how this can be solved differently

OOleg Isonen

most likely you would want a nocode component where variables are passed as props from the place where the component is used

JJohn Siciliano

Can I accept the risk that the variable may not be present?

Use case: I have three different post types. They are all blog posts to an extent but different formats. They share the same header, byline, author box, ctas, but different body and URLs

JJohn Siciliano

If the "risk" was on the user (or handled gracefully), it would open up the ability for components (to an extent)

OOleg Isonen

we had a long discussion with @TrySound it seems that we agree that we will need a global variables in addition to the instance variables and those global variables will be accessible across slot boundaries

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