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Fraser

Community Member, 48 Posts

26 June 2012 at 2:46pm

Edited: 26/06/2012 2:47pm

I have a gallery page, inside which, I have a control to output photos. However. From within this control, I need to access some information in the "Parent" ie the gallery, not the photos. I thought I could accomplish this using $Parent.xxxx however this doesn't appear to work.

How can I access this (code below shows the $Parent.xxxx attempt)

<div id="thumbs" class="navigation">
				<ul class="thumbs noscript">
					<% control Photos %>
					<li>
						<a class="thumb" href="$PaddedImage(990,655).URL" title="$Title">
							<img src="$Thumbnail(179,119).URL" alt="Title #16" />
						</a>
						<div class="caption">
							<% if Parent.GalleryText %>
								<div class="image-desc">$Parent.GalleryText</div>
							<% else %>
								<div class="image-title">$Title</div>
								<div class="image-desc">$Description</div>
							<% end_if %>
						</div>
					</li>
					<% end_control %>
				</ul>
			</div>

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Fraser

Community Member, 48 Posts

26 June 2012 at 2:58pm

Solved:

$Top.xxxxx