Referencing a thumbnail

Squiz Matrix General Discussion
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Hi,


This is a potentially convoluted question but please bear with me.



I am working with an RSS feed from an external application that amongst other things contains the asset ID of a page within matrix (which has a thumbnail associated with it). I'm displaying the rss feed using an asset listing and the question I have is this. Is there a way to take the supplied assetid and display its attached thumbnail in the asset listing.



Thanks





Nick Gorst

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You can normally do this with a keyword (globals_asset_thumbnail:assetid) but you can't nest a keyword inside another keyword. As you are using a dynamic asset id, you'd need something like %globals_asset_thumbnail:%assetid%%, which doesn't work.


There is a feature request for this (http://bugs.matrix.squiz.net/view_bug.php?bug_id=3130) but I don't think there is a current way of doing it.

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Actually Greg, that has solved it. What I didn't mention is that I have control over the RSS feed. I arranged the feed XML to have the node <thumbnail>globals_asset_thumbnail:14925</thumbnail> in it and in the asset listing I put the value %%ds__thumbnail%% and it worked a treat.
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Oh nice.