$record in blocks

[IndieIndeed]

HTML templates can utilize $record but HTML blocks on the same page cannot?

If that's correct, is there a proper solution to obtain the $record variable in a block on a database record page.

[xtech]

Yes, for some reason you cannot. I've came across this situation too..

[TAMAN]

How could a custom html block know what is $record if you don't specify the variable yourself? 

[xtech]

In pages record view template you have the $record variable.

[IndieIndeed]

1 hour ago, TAMAN said:

How could a custom html block know what is $record if you don't specify the variable yourself? 

I thought blocks just held code that would get placed wherever I used {block="block_name"}.

Some HTML Template Code
[Injected Block HTML Code]
The rest of that HTML Template Code

Though that does not seem to be the case.

[opentype]

4 hours ago, IndieIndeed said:

I thought blocks just held code that would get placed wherever I used {block="block_name"}.

Exactly. But it is parsed by itself. It can’t know anything about code that happens to be placed outside that block later on. 

[IndieIndeed]

1 hour ago, opentype said:

Exactly. But it is parsed by itself. It can’t know anything about code that happens to be placed outside that block later on. 

Oh. I did not know that. Thank you.

I will have to try and find a more convenient way of handling it.