SOLVED: GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages.

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10 months 2 hours ago - 10 months 1 hour ago #337332 by NFA

GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages. was created by NFA

Hi,

To set <meta description... in the header from profile pages, I use the Krileon solution from www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/228908-solved-how-to-manage-seo-meta-tags-easily?start=6#260955

Now I want to use a same kind of CB AutoAction - code - header for the GroupJive pages.
But what is the way to truncate the first 50 chars from [var2_description]? I don't think I can use a CB Query Field to query for it. I only see an option, which is not easy for me, in using the parameter field, but I already exploit the parameter field inhumanely for other purposes that it is becoming quite a jungle. Is there a simpler and less system-intensive option for something so basic in GroupJive?

Some CB substitution like below would be nice ;-)

Code:

left([var2_description],50)

With kind regards, Noa

Last edit: 10 months 1 hour ago by NFA.

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9 months 4 weeks ago #337339 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages.

You can do that with Format Functions. Enable them under the Parameters tab. You can review the available format functions, with explanations, and examples at the bottom of the Parameters tab. The below for example would truncate to 50 characters.

Code:

[cb:parse function="extract" length="50"][var2_description][/cb:parse]

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9 months 3 weeks ago - 9 months 3 weeks ago #337399 by NFA

Replied by NFA on topic GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages.

Hi Kyle,

I just can't get it to work on that way.

If I put in a CB AutoAction - Code - header

Code:

<meta name="description" content="[cb:parse function="extract" length="50"][var2_description][/cb:parse]" />

Code:

<meta name="description" content=[cb:parse function="extract" length="50"][var2_description][/cb:parse] />

I get in the source of the pages:

<meta name="description" content="[cb:parse function="extract" length="50"]Full, unlimited length of the variable [var2_description].
[/cb:parse]"

Tried also some other variants with double and single quotes, but can't get the CB parse function executed.

The "[cb:parse function=..." substitution doesn't seem to work in an CB Auto Action - Code - Header

Any idea why?
Regards, Noa

Last edit: 9 months 3 weeks ago by NFA.

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9 months 3 weeks ago #337401 by krileon

Replied by krileon on topic GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages.

The following should work fine.

Method: Metadata
Key: description
Value:

Code:

[cb:parse function="extract" length="50"][var2_description][/cb:parse]

Recommend using the metadata method as you won't need to provide the full HTML just the necessary information. You need to also be sure you've enabled "Format Functions" under the Parameters tab as well or that format function won't do anything.

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9 months 3 weeks ago #337427 by NFA

Replied by NFA on topic SOLVED: GJ: Meta description on GroupJive Group pages.

Yes, format functions wasn't enabled, and I didn't know there was metadata method as I created this AutoAction many years ago ;-)

Thank you!

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