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  • Keir 1 post 21 karma points
    Aug 07, 2012 @ 19:18
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    How to populate image meta tag

    I am currently using umbraco:Items to populate meta tages in my template header.

    <umbraco:Item field="shareImage" textIfEmpty="&lt;meta
 property=&quot;og:image&quot; 
content=&quot;http://www.mysite.com/images/fb_like_logo.png&quot; 
/&gt;" insertTextBefore="&lt;meta property=&quot;og:image&quot; content=&quot;" insertTextAfter="&quot; /&gt;" convertLineBreaks="true" runat="server" />

    This uses a text page field to populate the tag. Is it possible to populate the tag using the URL from a Media Picker property? On inserting the page field I can only get the image id number.

     

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  • Dan 1250 posts 3747 karma points admin c-trib
    Aug 07, 2012 @ 20:52
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    Hi Keir,

    It would be neater doing this with a macro I reckon.  Create a macro (here, I'm using XSLT) called 'metaImage' with a macro parameter with an alias of 'imageId' and type 'number'.  Then put something like this in your macro to render the path of the image in a meta tag:

    <xsl:variable name="domainName" select="concat('http://',umbraco.library:RequestServerVariables('HTTP_HOST'))"/>
    <xsl:variable name="imageId" select="number(/macro/imageId)"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:if test="$imageId > 0">
        <xsl:variable name="mediaNode" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($imageId, 0)" />
        <xsl:if test="$mediaNode/umbracoFile">
          <meta property="og:image" content="{concat($domainName,$mediaNode/umbracoFile)}"/>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

    Then just call this macro in your template using advanced macro parameter syntax to pass the media id to your macro like this:

      <umbraco:Macro imageId="[#yourImagePropertyAlias]" Alias="MetaImage" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

    Much cleaner than trying to get it formatted in the template directly, it should render something like this in the browser:

    <meta property="og:image" content="http://localhost:37715/media/83/test1.jpg" />
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