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Hi Lynne - That is exactly what I did - I assigned the value "Test123" to the variable, so it looks like it is the pre-registering which isn't working...

For example -

$templater = vB_Template::create('custom_template'); 
$templater->register('my_var', 'Test123'); 
$custom_template = $templater->render(); 
vB_Template::preRegister('threadbit', array('custom_template' => $custom_template));

{vb:raw custom_template} does not display "Test123"