Exclude Views field from displaying and just print it in field template?
Excluding the field from display empties the $field['name']-&gt;content, so that when the renderer gets to the default field template, there's nothing to print.

If you absolutely cannot achieve your intended result using tokens and Rewrite Output then I suggest you:


Do as you have already done to print the title in a different field's template
Create a field template for title that is empty