Using Variables Across Templates

[hilaryl]

Thanks for your replies.

I've had a read through that article, and it makes sense in terms of creating a new variable for a template - but is there a way to use the variable from the pagenav template in the SHOWTHREAD template?

I understand I will most likely need to create a plug-in for it - but I can't see how I assign one templates variable to a new variable, and then preregister that for a new template.

Is that possible?