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Hi Per,

It seems only way is to create a template extender

Then you can add metadata tags to any file with:

 Dynamicweb.Content.Files.Metadata.EditorFactory.AddFileMetadataToTemplate(ByVal filePath As String, ByVal template As Dynamicweb.Rendering.Template, ByVal tagPrefix As String)

or receive metadata to a file:

 Dynamicweb.Content.Files.Metadata.EditorFactory.GetMetadataForFile(ByVal file As String) As Meta

Best regards,

Vladimir

I think you are missing my point.

In the file archive you can add meta tags to images.

The mata tag can be shown in a template in the image gallery module:
http://templates.dynamicweb.com/TemplateTags/Dynamicweb-template-tags/Module-tags/Gallery/Loops/Images/Gallery-Image-Metadata-title.aspx

I would like to show the meta tag on a image on images everywhere i need it.

How can i do this without any backend coding, just using a DW tag?

it's not possible with DW tag

But it should be - the tag from image gallery just needs to be global.

hmm... maybe I misunderstood something...
You can make some paragraphs(hidden) with Image Galeries
And insert their content any where you want with tag: Global:Paragraph.Content([ID])

See:
http://manual.dynamicweb-cms.com/Default.aspx?ID=6625
Scroll to system metafields

Publish meta tags with:
http://templates.dynamicweb.com/TemplateTags/Dynamicweb-template-tags/Module-tags/Gallery/Loops/Images/Gallery-Image-Metadata-title.aspx #sthash.lfGiW6Yf.dpuf

Hi Per

I understand what you want to do - but it is not that simple unfortunately. Do you have specific places in particular where you are missing the feature?

BR Nicolai

We have made our own item based image gallery and would like to use the meta tags in it.

The DW image gallery generates a lot of thumbnails filling up the file archive which we would like to avoid.
And with the item based  version we can set up user configurable time, transitions, random, overlay etc. 

For now that is it but who knows ;-)

Can I make a Gallery template that does not generate all these thumbnail images?

Hi Per

No, the gallery will generate the thumbs. but set them to 1x1 px and they will not take up a lot of space.

BR Nicolai

So there is no way to avoid it - even if I only use original size images and use getimage to scale them....?

That is true.