---
title: Store
description: Returns a "scratch pad" to store and manipulate data, scoped to the current shortcode.
categories: []
keywords: []
action:
  related:
    - methods/page/Store
    - methods/site/Store
    - functions/hugo/Store
    - functions/collections/NewScratch
  returnType: maps.Scratch
  signatures: [SHORTCODE.Store]
toc: true
---

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Use the `Store` method to create a [scratch pad](g) to store and manipulate data, scoped to the current shortcode. To create a scratch pad with a different [scope](g), refer to the [scope](#scope) section below.

{{% note %}}
With the introduction of the [`newScratch`] function, and the ability to [assign values to template variables] after initialization, the `Store` method within a shortcode is mostly obsolete.

[assign values to template variables]: https://go.dev/doc/go1.11#text/template
[`newScratch`]: /functions/collections/newScratch/
{{% /note %}}

{{% include "_common/store-methods.md" %}}

{{% include "_common/scratch-pad-scope.md" %}}