BTW I  have tried...

<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="image" xslt="concat('&lt;img src=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0}, false)//crop [@name = 'banner']/@url, '&quot; /&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>

...as well - this doesn't render anything either :(

Hi there

Do you have access to the site via FTP?

Reason for asking is - have you confirmed the image exists ? Not trying to be cheeky by asking - I have been caught out before.

Cheers

Nigel

Hi Nigel -

That's perfectly alright - It's not unknown for me to miss the obvious things to check... in this case however... I had checked, yes, the file /media/242/cubans_2_banner.jpg as referenced by the XML does exist on the file system. Idoubt it's relevent but I'm working locally on my dev laptop anyway, so no web server to worry about.

I suspect my problem is actually the lack of clear documentation about how to use image cropper and how to use inline XSLT. I have no idea whether the syntax I am using id correct as I've cobbled it together and made assumptions about how it all works.

<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="{arg1}" xslt="concat('&lt;img src=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0}, false)//{arg2} [@name = '{arg3}']/@url, '&quot; /&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>

My assumptions are...

{arg1} = uploader property alias

{arg2} = image cropper property alias

{arg3} = crop name (as defined in the image cropper)

Can anyone verify for definate whether this interpretation is correct?

Hi Jon

Personally I would look to implement this functionality in a Macro / XSLT file.

You can then make the macro available within the content editor, or simply insert in your template.

I feel that this adds more functionality to your site and portability - it is available site wide without the hassle of re-writing the code.

You would have to add a Media Picker property to the macro in order to select the image.

A snippet from something I have done previously is below - my image crop was "_HomePageSlider":

<xsl:variable name="imagePath" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($image, 'false')/umbracoFile"/>
<xsl:variable name="imageCrop" select="concat(substring-before($imagePath,'.j'),'_HomePageSlider.j',substring-after($imagePath,'.j'))" />

Hope this is of some help.

Cheers

Nigel

The variant in your BTW above appears to be correct. The original post used 'imageCrop' which won't work.

Have you tried:

[<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="image" xslt="'{0}'" />]

This should display the media ID in square brackets.

Also, the argument false is actually interpreted as an XPath fragment. You either want 'false' (the string false, coerced to a boolean) or false() (the function returning the boolean value false). 

Try:

<umbraco:Item runat="server" field="image" xslt="concat('&lt;img src=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0}, false())//crop[@name = 'banner']/@url, '&quot; /&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>

You can always put this code in a macro to be easier to read: pass the id and the name of the crop in as parameters and you can reuse it. 

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