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docs/content/en/methods/page/Scratch.md

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 ---
 title: Scratch
-description: Creates a "scratch pad" on the given page to store and manipulate data.
+description: Returns a "scratch pad" on the given page to store and manipulate data.
 categories: []
 keywords: []
 action:
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ action:
     - functions/collections/NewScratch
   returnType: maps.Scratch
   signatures: [PAGE.Scratch]
+toc: true
 aliases: [/extras/scratch/,/doc/scratch/,/functions/scratch]
 ---
 
@@ -16,8 +17,28 @@ The `Scratch` method on a `Page` object creates a [scratch pad] to store and man
 
 To create a locally scoped scratch pad that is not attached to a `Page` object, use the [`newScratch`] function.
 
-[`Store`]: /methods/page/store
-[`newScratch`]: functions/collections/newscratch
+[`Store`]: /methods/page/store/
+[`newScratch`]: /functions/collections/newscratch/
 [scratch pad]: /getting-started/glossary/#scratch-pad
 
 {{% include "methods/page/_common/scratch-methods.md" %}}
+
+## Determinate values
+
+The `Scratch` method is often used to set scratch pad values within a shortcode, a partial template called by a shortcode, or by a Markdown render hook. In all three cases, the scratch pad values are not determinate until Hugo renders the page content.
+
+If you need to access a scratch pad value from a parent template, and the parent template has not yet rendered the page content, you can trigger content rendering by assigning the returned value to a [noop] variable:
+
+[noop]: /getting-started/glossary/#noop
+
+```go-html-template
+{{ $noop := .Content }}
+{{ .Store.Get "mykey" }}
+```
+
+You can also trigger content rendering with the `FuzzyWordCount`, `Len`, `Plain`, `PlainWords`, `ReadingTime`, `Summary`, `Truncated`, and `WordCount` methods. For example:
+
+```go-html-template
+{{ $noop := .WordCount }}
+{{ .Store.Get "mykey" }}
+```