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I just came across these built in functions for obtaining page metadata here:

https://code.google.com/p/tridion-practice/wiki/BuiltInFunctionsForUseInHtmlTemplates For example: !GetFieldMetadata("Image")=Name: Image

I've never use them so don't have an example to work with and the guesses i've made so far to use this function hasn't worked.

My page has a metadata schema with the field 'page_title', so i'm trying to render this using:

@@GetFieldMetadata("page_title")@@

But this doesn't work. I've tried the usual varieties "Page.Metadata.page_title", "Page.Metadata.Fields.page_title"

If anyone one has a quick solution, great, failing that i'm going back over to to a c# tbb :)

Update: Added a comment to Nick's comment below.

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  • You can just do @@Metadata.page_title@@. Not sure why you'd need a function for that. – Nickoli Roussakov Apr 29 '13 at 21:49
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    @NickoliRoussakov - I had forgotten and have used @@Page.Metadata.page_title@@ - i'd still like to know how to get the GetFieldMetadata function to work – johnwinter Apr 29 '13 at 21:50
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    Interesting! +1 for wanting to know if/what @@GetFieldMetadata("page_title")@@ adds over @@Page.Metadata.page_title@@. – Chris Morgan Apr 29 '13 at 22:00
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This method doesn't get a metadata field... it gets a field's metadata. For a Component with a multi-lined text field of "BodyText"...

@@GetFieldMetadata("BodyText")@@

Would return the following output:

Height: 10
DefaultValue: 
Name: BodyText
Description: BodyText
CustomUrl: 
MinOccurs: 0
MaxOccurs: 1

The function contains an optional 2nd argument which is a boolean that tells it whether or not the field is a metadata field or not, so for your example, you would want to do something along the lines of:

@@GetFieldMetadata("page_title", true)@@

The Default Dreamweaver Page Design and Default Dreamweaver Component Design templates also have a good example of putting this method to use Hope that helps!

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  • thanks alex - i couldn't see the wood for the trees. that's interesting, i didn't know that was possible with dwt. i certainly can't imagine a use-case for it but always good to know. – johnwinter Apr 30 '13 at 13:49
  • Use cases could be for testing and CMS designs! Walter van der Heiden had a post describing how he'd "inject" information (e.g. TCM urls) into just Staging markup for testing. I'm envisioning ways to create a page/content type breakdown auto-magically by adding schema and template name directly to markup. I believe the default templates use the title attribute to make a field's metadata look like a tooltip (based on your browser's functionality). – Alvin Reyes♦ Apr 30 '13 at 14:49
  • hi alvin, i get you - say a user doesn't enter a value it could display something in a certain scenario – johnwinter Apr 30 '13 at 19:44

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