Hi Eva

Try to see what will return just: 

<umbraco:Itemfield="sideImage"runat="server"/>

It return mediaId of course ;)

I need to get the data through GetMedia

Hi Eva

From Umbraco 4.11, there is a new control to display images very easy, just like when you output content from the umbraco:item  

You use it like this:

<umbraco:Image runat="server" field="sideImage" />

/Dennis

Hi Eva,

If you create an XSLT file with a assoicated macro and inserted the macro on the template instead of include the XSLT in the template you can do it like this to get the caption out.

<xsl:if test="$currentPage/sideImage != ''">
        <xsl:variable name="media" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/sideImage, 0)"/>
        <xsl:variable name="src" select="$media/umbracoFile"/>
        <xsl:variable name="width" select="$media/umbracoWidth"/>
        <xsl:variable name="height" select="$media/umbracoHeight"/>
        <img src="{$src}" width="{$width}" height="{$height}"/>
       <xsl:value-ofselect="$media/caption"/>
 </xsl:if>

/Dennis

Thanks Dennis, it's much straightforward with Image control.

However, I need to display a custom property. I know I can create xslt, it's just a long way round what I need compared to displaying the image itself :(

Try this:

<umbraco:Item field="sideImage" Xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia({0}/caption)" runat="server" />

Thanks but it doesn't work either.

Sorry i pasted the wrong piece of code

<umbraco:Item field="sideImage" Xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia({0},false())/caption" runat="server" />

works if you have created a field on your media type called "caption". 
Filled out the filed on the image in the media section.
Added a media picker to your page with the alias of sideImage and selcted the image with the filled out property.  

thanks but that's exactly what's not working for me.

I described it in my first post

Are you sure you've done like this:

1. Add property to image and fill it out

2. add inline xslt to your template 

3. Caption renders frontend

YES, I AM SURE

And the data was in the database.

However I;ve just noticed that I have two similar images and I was just picking up the wrong one which had no caption saved.

Sorry, and thanks for leading me to that.

Cool, good you got it working :)

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