Up until this point we've seen how we can pass primitive types (strings, numbers, booleans, etc) into our shortcodes. What happens though when we want to pass in a Lava variable? For instance, what if we had a collection of groups, loaded from an entity command, and we want our shortcode to format them. No problem, simply drop the quotes and Lava will pass the contents of the variable into the key you provide. Let's see an example.

{% group where:'GroupTypeId == 25'%}
    {[ grouplistformat groups:groupItems ]}
{% endgroup %}

Just keep in mind that there are some limitations to passing in objects. Specifically, using the "dot" notation to provide an object (see example below) will not work for you.

{% group where:'GroupTypeId == 25'%}
    {[ grouplistformat groups:ParentObject.groupItems ]}
{% endgroup %}