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Davor Zlotrg
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Posted on 07/07/2014 15:35:17

Hi DynamicWeb,

I am trying to render meta tags for description, keywords in my Master. I would like to pull existing data from page properties from Admin.

First issue that I confronted is that when I put description meta tag in head section like below (with all lower case letters) it wont render at all in HTML:

<meta name="description" content="...." />

How can i get meta tags from PageView object?

I tried something similiar like this @Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current().Meta.Title but with no success.

Also I tried using PageTemplateExtender to get meta tags from page but could not find a way. As I can see there is only method for adding custom tags:

     this.PageView.Meta.Add("description", "test description");

Could you please advise how to retrieve meta tags from page properties?

Thanks

 

 

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 08/07/2014 10:04:20
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Hi Davor

If you simply add <meta name="description" content="" /> to your master or layout template, Dynamicweb will automatically fill the tag with the data for the page currently being viewed. Have a look in the Designs & Layout documentation how this works.

If a page does not have a description, Dynamicweb will not render the description tag.

Nicolai

 
Davor Zlotrg
Posted on 08/07/2014 10:55:03
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Hi Nicolai,

If I add <meta name="description" content="" /> to my layout template I get Object reference not set to an instance of an object Exception.

Please see attached markup html and stack trace of exception.

Thanks.

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Davor Zlotrg
Posted on 08/07/2014 11:08:58
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Hi Nicolai,

Also if I add attribute data-settings="disableparsing:true;" to my master head section the Exception is gone, but content attribute of description meta tag is still empty.

Thanks

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 08/07/2014 11:39:03
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Hi Davor

I need the URL then...

 
Davor Zlotrg
Posted on 08/07/2014 11:56:29
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Hi Nicolai,

Here is the URL:

http://195.249.142.64/

 

Thanks.

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 08/07/2014 12:10:13
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Hi Davor

Now it works. Just do what the manual says...

I removed this piece of code from your layout file:

<!--@SnippetStart(title)-->
    <title>@Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current().Meta.Title</title>
 <meta name="description" content="" />
<!--@SnippetEnd(title)-->

And this code from your master file:

@if(1 == 2)
    {
        <title></title>  
    }
    <!--@Snippet(title)-->

And then simply added a title and description tag to the master template.

BR Nicolai

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Davor Zlotrg
Posted on 08/07/2014 12:54:18
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Hi Nicolai,

We needed that part for overriding the titles, but now we will do it another way.

Thank you for quick responses and fix.

Kind regards,

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 08/07/2014 13:09:04
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Hi Davor

You can from every element (Page, news, products etc.) override the title on the UI.

If you need to do it from code, use Pageview.Current.Meta.Title:

http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/api8/#Dynamicweb~Dynamicweb.Frontend.Meta~Title.html

Nicolai

 

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