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  • Dany Wu 81 posts 114 karma points
    Jul 26, 2009 @ 09:02
    Dany Wu
    0

    Inserting Media Picker property as a link in a template

    Hi folks,

    I think there's another similar thread not so long ago but nobody has answered it. I have succesfully done this with an image using ImageGen like this:

    <div style="width:300px;padding:5px;border: 1px dotted #ddd; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
             <a href="/umbraco/imageGen.aspx?image=<umbraco:Item field="mainImage" xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data[@alias='mainImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" runat="server"/>&width=600&constrain=true"
                                       rel="lightbox">
                                        <img src="/umbraco/imageGen.aspx?image=<umbraco:Item field="mainImage" xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data[@alias='mainImage'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" runat="server"/>&width=300&constrain=true"
                                             class="reflect rheight25 ropacity35"
                                             style="border:none;"/>
                                </a>
                        </div>

    It was a fairly straightforward but slightly painful to type out insertion.

    I tried to do the same thing with a link to a PDF file like below:

    <a href="<umbraco:Item field="pedigreePDF" xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data[@alias='pedigreePDF'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" runat="server"/>">Pedigree</a>

    All I get out of this one is - ">Pedigree - with no hyperlink, just text. If I didn't include the umbraco:Item in an <a> tag, just have:

    <td><umbraco:Item field="pedigreePDF" xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data[@alias='pedigreePDF'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" runat="server"/></td>

    ...then I get a path to the media file, "/media/949/Essie_pedigree.pdf"

    Kinda frustrating...can anyone see something wrong with my syntax? Is this the best practice for this requirement?

    Many thanks,
    Dany.

  • Dany Wu 81 posts 114 karma points
    Jul 26, 2009 @ 10:11
    Dany Wu
    0

    There must be some HTML rule I'm missing but this seems to work for me - no idea why:

    <a href="//<umbraco:Item field="pedigreePDF" xslt="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/data[@alias='pedigreePDF'], 'false')/data [@alias = 'umbracoFile']" runat="server"/>">Pedigree</a>

  • Martijn Maris 37 posts 235 karma points MVP
    Jul 26, 2009 @ 16:56
    Martijn Maris
    101

    In the wiki there is an example which uses concat to attach the <img> tag to the output of the GetMedia to show an image. Maybe you can use this also to create the <a> tag. Something like this:

    <umbraco:Item runat="server" field="pedigreePDF" xslt="concat('&lt;a href=&quot;',umbraco.library:GetMedia({0},'true')/data[@alias='umbracoFile'], '&quot; &gt;Pedigree&lt;a&gt;')" xsltDisableEscaping="true"/>

    The {0} in the XSLT will reference the pedigreePDF field. Then you do not need 'currentPage'. This will work in this example if pedigreePDF is a MediaPicker.

  • Dany Wu 81 posts 114 karma points
    Jul 26, 2009 @ 23:46
    Dany Wu
    0

    That's a much for elegant solution - thanks for that. I have a lot more to learn with XSLT obviously...

  • Peter Gregory 408 posts 1614 karma points MVP 3x admin c-trib
    Jul 27, 2009 @ 00:33
    Peter Gregory
    0

    Hey Danny

    Could you please mark Martijns post as the solution if you are using that. Thanks.

  • Alessione 3 posts 23 karma points
    Sep 09, 2010 @ 12:11
    Alessione
    0

    Hallo, I've tried this solution and it works thank you! but..

    what if I want to put in the link the name of the file???

    the link in the solution is hard coded and is 

     '&quot; &gt;Pedigree&lt;a&gt;'

    Pedigree.. I'll like to put instead the name of the media file to make it generic for every file....
    ...

    please help!!

     

    thanks

    Alessio

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