Help with Setting & Reading a Generic Variable

Darrin Norton

• April 15, 2015 21:20

The KB article: http://support.americommerce.com/hc/en-us/articles/201904650-How-do-you-use-Generic-Variable-Merges-
gives this syntax as an example: ##SET[MfgIs=##MFGNAME##]##

So what i wanted to do is:
##SET[ThisCat=##CATID##]##

The problem is - in contrast to what the KB article shows as an example, my variable appears to get set to a literal of "##CATID##" , rather than the numerical value of the CATID.
(this is visible in the output of ##GENERICVARIABLES##)

Here's the full code I'm using:
##SET[ThisCat=##CATID##]##

##IF[ThisCat=8]##
ThisCat is set to 8
##ELSE##
This is the ELSE statement - ##CATID##
##ENDIF##
##GENERICVARIABLES##

Any idea as to what is wrong?

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  AmeriCommerce Developer

  • April 15, 2015 21:23

  where specifically are you trying to use this code? the ##CATID## merge code may simply be outside of its context if the merge is not rendering.

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  Darrin Norton

  • April 15, 2015 21:42

  I'm using this on a category page.

  If I just put ##CATID## on the page, it outputs the id number just fine.

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