Andy -

An indirect solution for you from my similar solution to a list box type.  This is implemented as a User Control and wrapped as a Custom Data Type.

First, when the control loads we populate the list:

                // load list items
                string[] namesArray = ListData.Split(',');
                List<ListItem> namesList = new List<ListItem>(namesArray.Length);

                foreach (string item in namesArray)
                {
                    ItemList.Items.Add(item);
                }

the, we add items to the list based on an action (button click or similar):

            // set to string
            string listValues = string.Empty;

            foreach (ListItem listItem in ItemList.Items)
            {
                if (listItem.Value.Length > 0)
                listValues += listItem.Value.ToString() + ',';
            }

            if (listValues != string.Empty)
                ListData = listValues;

Certainly, room for improvement, but hopefully a start.

-Paul

Thank you for the response Paul but unfortunately I don't think I've made myself clear in what i'm trying to achieve.

I have created a document type that has a number of properties one of which is a custom checkbox list type with a set of predefined values. My import process is then creating a series of content pages using this document type and populating the properties from values held in a database and then publishing the page. The problem is trying to set the values in the checkbox list from the data held in the database.

If I create a page using this content type via the dashboard and then select some of the checkbox list items before publishing the page I have seen that the selected items are stored within the text of the xml column of the cmsContentXml table for the particular node id in this format:

<data alias="myAlias"><![CDATA[item1,item2,item4]]></data>

I have been attempting to recreate this progamatically as shown above but so far have not had any success.

Thanks Thomas, just had this revelation myself. There are days when I think I shouldn't be allowed to sit in front of a computer.

LOL

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