Strange behaviour with section show param

Wednesday 19 November 2003 7:18:39 am

Hi,

I'm trying to write a template that displays the news articles from a folder structure in multiple columns. The maximum number of items in a column is also defined.
So I tried to write a section statement like this:

{section loop=$NEWSITEMS offset=$NEWS_WRITTEN_FOLDER max=$MAX_HEIGHT show=$NEWS_WRITTEN_COLUMN|lt($MAX_HEIGHT)}

But the section is also shown when NEWS_WRITTEN_COLUMN is larger than MAX_HEIGHT. Any ideas why this is? I already tried to display the content of the variables and the result of the lt-operation in each item and their values are ok (e.g. 1 for the articles which should be shown)
And can anyone tell me when it will be possible to access variables from the parent namespace in a set-command?
Atm I have 3 nested sections in one namespace because the innermost loop has to set variables from the root namespace.

Greetings
Marcus