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jcamp
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Mar 30, 2007, 11:00 AM

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Hi,

I have added two custom fields to AM 1.41. One is for the meta description and the other for the meta keywords. I then add these to the default article (full) when publishing to help the search engines. The problem is that sometimes I do not fill in these fields but the <meta description...> tag still shows at the top of the html without any content.

Is there a way of conditionally including this field so that it only puts in the meta commands when I have added something into the user fields?


Donna
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Mar 30, 2007, 3:20 PM

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Re: [jcamp] Dynamic includes [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there,

With Article Manager 1 ... not really. With Article Manager 2, we could definitely set something up like this, though.

One other option you could use is to pre-fill ALL fields with a few defaults, but include the placeholder as well so that it would display your defaults as well as the custom content. Would that work for you?

Donna

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jcamp
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Mar 30, 2007, 3:32 PM

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Re: [Donna] Dynamic includes [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Donna,

I could pre-fill but that would give equal emphasis to all pages by default and so nullify the seo stuff. I was hoping you could have some logic like you use on the includes for templates where you say <if this user field is not empty then show this field...>. I think conditional user fields could be a useful addition as I could think of all sorts of uses.

Regards
Jonathan


Donna
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Mar 30, 2007, 3:46 PM

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Hi Jonathan,

We thought so, too! That's why we included template logic in Article Manager 2. :)

Donna

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