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How to render values from Page meta types
Submitted Jun 06, 2008 by Pavlo Kuzminskyi
This article describes how you can render the value on a page if you have created a Page Meta Type. We will be using the XSLT function to do this.
1. Go to Administration part | Data
2. Add new Page Meta type with such parameters:
Settings tab:
Name: the function should be called intuitive understanding like "Marker"
Namespace: the namespace should display function’s purpose like "Metatypes"
Fields:
Name: “MarkerValue”,
Label: “Marker Value”,
Field type: String,
String maximum length: 64 character maximum.
3. Save your Metatype.
4. Go to Administration part | Content
5. Click/right click Add Meta Data Field and add your created metatype:
Settings tab:
Marker Value: Sample Value of Marker
6. Press “Save” button
7. Go to Administration part | Functions
8. Add new XSLT function with following parameters:
Settings tab:
Name: the function should be called intuitive understanding like "MarkerRendering"
Namespace: the namespace should display function’s purpose like "Metatypes.Marker"
Description: function description
Output type: should be "XHTML"
Input Parameters
· Add new parameter “Filter”
· “Parameter type” should be Expression<Func<XXX,Boolean>> (where XXX is the name of your type)
· “Test value” should be <Your namespace> | <Data type name> | DataReferenceFilter and in Data Reference list should be selected some element
· “Default value” should be <Your namespace> | <Data type name> | ActivePageReferenceFilter or other
Function calls
· Add new function “ <Your namespace> | <Marker> | Get<Data type name>Xml”
· Click on “Filter”:
Parameter value type: should be “Execute a function call“
Complex function call: should be “Composite | Utils | GetInputParameter” with parameter name “Filter”
Template
Copy and paste code into the <body></body> tags:
|
Value of input parameter 'Marker': <xsl:value-of select="/in:inputs/in:result[@name='GetMarkerXml']/Marker/@MarkerValue" /> |
Preview
In Preview you can see filtered data.
9. Save changes
10. Edit Page
11. At content area click/right click on Insert button/link | Functions | select created functions
12. Press “OK” button
13. Save changes