Forum OpenACS Q&A: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage?

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1: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage?
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/26/11 08:16 PM
On my XoWiki FormPages, by default, the html 'title' tag is populated from the Xowiki default 'Page Title' form field which I believe is mapped directly to the CR '_title' field.

I have an ACS_Category mapped to my xowiki instance to drive a menu tree. The CR '_title' is therefore listed in the menus which is what I want.

However, I need to assign a different field to the html title tag (for SEO purposes) whilst leaving the menus as they are.

What is the best way to pass a replacement title up to the document head in an xowiki formpage to replace the default use of the _title field?

I would like to add a formpage field such as 'pretty_title', and have this go into the html title tag whilst the standard 'Page Title' remains in the menus.

Regards
Richard

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2: Re: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage? (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 09/27/11 10:06 AM
Dear Richard, this is a valid and useful request. I have added a small update to xowiki, that uses a form-field with the name "html_title" as HTML title when present. This is similar to the formfield "keywords", which is used for the meta-tag keywords, as it was implemented already before.
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3: Re: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage? (response to 2)
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/11 12:12 AM
Gustaf,

I don't know what to say other thank you so much! 😊

I note that all I need to do to pass my meta keywords is to set a variable @keywords@. I had until now been passing meta keywords using the following idiom:

{{set-parameter keywords {@mykeywords@}}}

I am still using this idiom in my FormPage Template to pass meta description data:

{{set-parameter description {@_description@}}}

Is that the correct way to do it?

Once again, thank you so much for that additional feature.

Regards
Richard

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4: Re: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage? (response to 3)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 09/28/11 11:11 AM
The idiom with set-parameter works on every kind of xowiki page, the approach via form-field just for FormPages, but the latter is more straight-forward, tailorable and extensible. If i would start to write xowiki from scratch, i would just use FormPages for everything. So, if you have a FormPage that has "description" filled out, its value is used as description of the page also without the set-parameter in the template.
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5: Re: Is it possible to over-ride the html title tag value in an Xowiki formpage? (response to 4)
Posted by Richard Hamilton on 09/28/11 03:26 PM
Ah, brilliant. Thank you for clarifying that.

Once again, thank you very much.

Regards
Richard