Brochure page Meta Descriptions

[grant]

Hi All,

Goodness, things have changed around here.....

We look after a V11 site where the Meta Descriptions are the same for every Brochure page - they are taking the description settings from the main catalog page.

I have read through threads like this http://community.sellerdeck.com/showthread.php?t=39318 and with a bit of testing I see that this would work.

But is this really a bug still evident in V11? The thread linked to is a fix for V8.

Or is there a better way to sort this out in V11 (the site in question is an old one that has been upgraded as each new version came out etc)

Cheers

[grant]

OK, So we have to construct a big bunch of Blockif's to deal with this.

Surely this is something that should have been sorted already?

[Steve G Griggs]

I don't have any problem with the meta descriptions in brochure pages either in any flovour of V11.

[grant]

Hi All,

Hmmm.playing around with this and comparing it to a default store etc and I cant see the difference.

Using

<TITLE><actinic:variable name="PageTitle" /></TITLE>
<actinic:variable name="BaseHref" /> 
<actinic:variable name="MetaTags" />

And in Metatags is the following

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsEmbeddedPreview%22%20%2f%3e"> 
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="<actinic:variable name="EmbeddedPreviewCompatibility" />">
</actinic:block>  
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
   <meta http-equiv="MSThemeCompatible" content="yes" />
<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Section%22%20AND%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Brochure%22%20AND%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22Product%20Page%22%29%20OR%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsStoreFrontPage%22%20%2f%3e" >
   <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22GlbMetaKeywords%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="GlbMetaKeywords" />" />
   </actinic:block>
   <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22GlbMetaDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="description" content="<actinic:variable name="GlbMetaDescription" />" />
   </actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Section%22%20OR%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Brochure%22%29%20AND%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsStoreFrontPage%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20FALSE" >
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22MetaKeywords%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="MetaKeywords" />" />
	</actinic:block>
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22MetaDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="description" content="<actinic:variable name="MetaDescription" />" />
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Product%20Page%22%29" >
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductPageMetaKeywords%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="keywords" content="<actinic:variable name="ProductPageMetaKeywords" />" />
	</actinic:block>
	<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductPageMetaDescription%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%20%22%22" >
		<meta name="description" content="<actinic:variable name="ProductPageMetaDescription" />" />
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22InTestMode%22%20%2f%3e">
	<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
</actinic:block>

which I think would just be the default Standard Meta Tags layout...

Any clues?

[grant]

Hmm - GlbMetaDescription is returning the basic description for the whole store.

If I change that to be MetaDescription it returns nothing...

As far as I can work out - GlbMetaDescription is the description for the whole store, and the MetaDescription is the description for a Section. But as this is a brochure page, not a section, then it is not returning anything....