How to set panel title to the title of the node whose ID was given as argument

I'm not sure where to find that option "Don't override the node template, but create an additional one".

I currently have already a panel overriding the default template for that node type. When I start the node template wizard, it asks which node type I want to create a template for, but the node type I want is not in that list (I guess because I already have one?). So I am not sure how to create an additional one with a different URL.

In the "Node template" panel, I see indeed that that template is a variant. I can clone that variant. But then I cannot set a custom path where that cloned variant should be available. Setting a path seems only possible for landing pages. But I don't know how to use a field in the title of the landing page then.

Can you give me a walk through about how I should create such a page (via Structure - Pages, or Structure - Panels, and then...) or point me to some detailed documentation? Setting the title to %node:title does not work for a standard page, because it does not understand that this is actually a node template and the parameter should be interpreted as a node ID.

ping?

I will try to explain more clearly what I want to achieve:

I have a content type called "Researcher". It contains fields such as contact information, biography etc, but also a field which contains "research projects" (it's actually a "node reference" field, and can get multiple values).

I already have a panel defining a custom lay-out for the Researcher node type. It's defined under Structure - Panels and there under Manage Pages there is "Node template" where I have a variant Researcher. The summary for this page says that "when enabled, this overrides the default Drupal behavior for displaying nodes at node/%node" and it alsay says that it also works for aliases. That's precisely what I want for this first template, and it's working perfectly.

Now, because the list of projects by a researcher can get quite long, I do not display all these projects on the Researcher's page. I want to display them on a separate page. Furthermore you need to know that a project can be ongoing or finished. In the Research Project content type, there is a boolean field which determines whether a project is ongoing or finished.

On that new page which I want to create, I first want a list with header "Ongoing projects", and then a list with header "Finished projects" for a selected member (whose node ID is given as an argument). The path for this page should be /projects-by/ followed by the node-id as argument and the page title should be: "Research projects by [researcher-name]".

I created two content panes in the Views module: one which lists all ongoing projects and one which lists all finished projects for the given node id. So now I want to create a page with the panels module, which contains both Views, and sets the page title to "Research projects by [researcher-name]. Creating a page with the panels module which contains both views and passes the page argument to both views, is very easy with the panels module and I can configure it on the chosen path. This works fine, except for one thing: I cannot get the researcher's name in the page title field. That's very logical, because the panels module does not know that the page argument (which is being passed to both views), is actually a node id, so using %node:title does not work. That was my first attempt, which is the best result I could get as of now.

My second attempt was to create the said page as a variant in the "Node template" page in the panels module. In that case I can use %node:title, because it knows that the argument is actually a node ID. But then the problem is that I cannot configure the path: the "Node template" page, as explained in its summary, works on the URL's "node/%node" (and alias) path, which I already use for the template displaying the researcher's information (the first template I talked about in paragraph 3). So this second variant for the same node type, is actually inaccessible.

I hope now it's a bit more clear where I'm stuck.

Thank you all for your help and suggestions!

Thanks for your advice!

I don't think I can use the view title because the title of the two views is already "Current projects" and "Past projects".

Setting up a context sounds interesting, but it seems to work only for a specific node ID? At least when I choose Contexts - Node - Add context in the panel, I don't have the impression that I can specify that it should use the URL parameter for the node ID, but maybe I'm not correctly understanding this.