[Resolved] how to pass a variable to a view

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[patrickM-3]

I have several nested views with a Cred form at the inner most level.

I need to store one of the variables from one of the outer views into one of the fields of the Cred form.

Where can I find a complete, straightforward guide for passing variables into views. I don't need to add this variable as a custom field to any of the other post types I'm dealing with. I just want to store a value from an outer view into the Cred fields in order to simplify the construction of another view.

How do I pass a variable, via shortcode, into a series of nested views and, ultimately, into a Cred field?

[Luo Yang]

Dear patrick,

You can create a custom shortcode for it, for example, add below codes into your theme/functions.php:

add_shortcode('save-get-value', 'save_get_value_func');
function save_get_value_func($atts, $content){
	global $my_var;
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
        'action' => 'save',
    ), $atts));
	$res = $my_var;
	if($action == 'save'){
		$my_var = do_shortcode($content);
		$res = '';
	}
	return $res;
}

When you need store some value (abc) into $my_var, use this in your content:
[save-get-value]abc[/save-get-value]

When you need to get the value from $my_var, use this in your content:
[save-get-value action="get"][/save-get-value]

[patrickM-3]

Thank you, Louy. When I store a value with [save-get-value]abc[/save-get-value], is that value stored from page to page? In other words, if I set a value on one page with a view, then click a link to load a different page with a different view, can I still recall that same variable?