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VirtualRichard
Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:54:48 AM

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Location: London, UK.
Another day, another possibly stupid question.

Can I get the Nice Url for a node ID chosen in a content picker to display in a Macro within a template *without* resorting to XSL?

At the moment I have:

Code:
<a href="<?UMBRACO_GETITEM field="PanelLink"/>"><img src="<?UMBRACO_GETITEM field="Panel"/>"></a>


Giving:

<a href="1316"><img src="mypanel.jpg"></a>

No use of course! How do I NiceUrl-ify that? If I have to use XSL to do this, the words "sledgehammer" and "nut" spring to mind :hmm:

Richard

P.s. I really don't like the search defaulting to community. Now, whenever I try to search the forum, I get pages returned from all over the interweb and usually only links to big lists of umbraco forum posts - I can't find anything any more!

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mikew909
Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:16:01 PM
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Joined: 9/26/2007
Posts: 10
Put down that hammer my good man :)

I feel your pain cause I spent ages trying to get my nice urls working - but once you have it sorted youre away...

The simplest way imho is actually XSLT so I'll put it anyway just for fun

In my template

<MediaImage>
http://mikescoolserver.com<?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias="niceURL" currentID="[#pageID]" mediaID="[#imgMedia]">
</?UMBRACO_MACRO>
</MediaImage>

in my XSLT which you've added a variable called imgMedia to

<xsl:variable name="mediaID" select="/macro/mediaID"/>
...
..

<xsl:if test="/macro/mediaID != ''">

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetMedia($mediaID, false)/data[@alias='umbracoFile']/text()" />

</xsl:if>

and thats all there is to it. All within umbraco interface.

hope this helps, also seeing as Umbraco is basically XSLT driven you'll have a hard time avoiding it if you want to get real familiar with it

Hope this was some help

Mike :thumbup:

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VirtualRichard
Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:23:27 PM

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Joined: 9/17/2007
Posts: 264
Location: London, UK.
Hi, thanks for that. I figured this must be the case, so I documented my solution in my blog:

UMBRACO_GETITEM > Content Picker > Nice URL?

Wish there was a way to just have it happen and not go through all that! If anyone ever figures out how, do let us know.

I don't mind the XSLT so much, it's the XPath that gives me the willies :cry:

Richard
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