Meta descriptions from CGBlog through VAR field

[personIsHere]

Hi,
I have the need for specific meta descriptions for each of my pages for the CGBlog pages.

I have created a new public field called description.

When referencing this in the template to check if all text inputs are displaying correctly, it works, with the statement

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{if isset($entry->fields)}
    {foreach $entry->fields as $field}
        <div class="CGBlogDetailField">
            {if $field->type == 'image'}
                <img src="{$entry->file_location}/{$field->value}"/>
            {else}
                <p>{$field->value}</p>
            {/if}
        </div>
    {/foreach}
{/if}

So that is ok, but based on trying to create global var at the bottom of the template,

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{assign var="description" value=$field->description|escape scope=global}

Here is my main page template,

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{if isset($description)}
        <meta name="description" content="{$description}">
{else}
        <meta name="description" content="Insert regular meta desc here...">
{/if}

Any help on why that last meta tag bit at the end is not working would be muchly appreciated... not quite sure where I've gone wrong, especially because I did EXACTLY the same thing for the title...

Ta,
Jake

[velden]

So that is ok, but based on trying to create global var at the bottom of the template,

Code:
{assign var="description" value=$field->description|escape scope=global}

Probably, at the bottom of the field you're outside the foreach loop, hence the $field variable is non-existent anymore.

So better try:

So that is ok, but based on trying to create global var at the bottom of the template,

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{assign var="description" value=$entry->fields.description->value|escape scope=global}

[Rolf]

https://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/bas ... d-metatags

[personIsHere]

Velden you have once again saved my bacon thank you very much!

Thanks as well Rolf for the article that was a valuable read!