How to add an image wrapped in a link to the image so that end users may select the image.
This I'm sure is fairly straight forward, but I have not created such an extension in Umbraco before, and I'm finding myself a little lost on how to begin.
I would like a small snippet of html that I can insert into my templates with a targetable name that looks like the following.
<a rel="galleryName" href="imagepath">
<img href="imagepath" alt="alttext" />
</a>
To add content to this section the user will select a media item of type image, and fill out the galleryName, and alt text attributes.
This seemed pretty straight forward, until I actually got started. Is this a Macro, or a Data Type? Is this done with XSLT or a User Control in C#? I'm really just looking to have my hand held through this one so I can better understand the Umbraco way of doing things.
This can easily be done with a macro. And then you can choose between XSLT, Phyton or a .NET user control. I suggest using with XSLT. Then give your macro parameters for the image, alt and gallery
I don't understand how to make the macro targetable in my document types. So that I can say that macro 1 on the page uses this image, and macro 2 that one, etc.
I will have 10 of these on a page, that will comprise a gallery for my user. Then from his content tab, he can select 10 different images and add in the supporting alt text. How do I differentiate 2 macros in my template? Right now they are added with
In my document type I had planned to assigne a field to each and place them on a tab for the gallery, but that doesn't appear to be the way this will work.
Any help is appreciated, thanks once again for your time.
How to add an image wrapped in a link to the image so that end users may select the image.
This I'm sure is fairly straight forward, but I have not created such an extension in Umbraco before, and I'm finding myself a little lost on how to begin.
I would like a small snippet of html that I can insert into my templates with a targetable name that looks like the following.
<a rel="galleryName" href="imagepath">
<img href="imagepath" alt="alttext" />
</a>
To add content to this section the user will select a media item of type image, and fill out the galleryName, and alt text attributes.
This seemed pretty straight forward, until I actually got started. Is this a Macro, or a Data Type? Is this done with XSLT or a User Control in C#? I'm really just looking to have my hand held through this one so I can better understand the Umbraco way of doing things.
Thanks for your time,
This can easily be done with a macro. And then you can choose between XSLT,
Phyton or a .NET user control. I suggest using with XSLT.
Then give your macro parameters for the image, alt and gallery
Thanks for the start. I'll let you know how it goes.
So I have this so far,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:Stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp " "> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:param name="galleryName" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="media" select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($currentPage/imageAlias, 0)" />
<a ref="{$galleryName}" href="{$media/umbracoFile}">
<img src="{$media/umbracoFile}" alt="{$media/altText}" />
</a>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I don't understand how to make the macro targetable in my document types. So that I can say that macro 1 on the page uses this image, and macro 2 that one, etc.
I will have 10 of these on a page, that will comprise a gallery for my user. Then from his content tab, he can select 10 different images and add in the supporting alt text. How do I differentiate 2 macros in my template? Right now they are added with
<umbraco:Macro gallery="galleryName" Alias="LinkAndImage" runat="server">umbraco:Macro>
In my document type I had planned to assigne a field to each and place them on a tab for the gallery, but that doesn't appear to be the way this will work.
Any help is appreciated, thanks once again for your time.
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