Hello.

Im interested in rendering custom datatypes in my content templates.

Say for instace i have a datatype with property editor dropdown list and a set of prevalues. I would like to render a dropdown list with those prevalues with an easy command so that i can then later change the type from a dropdown to something else and have my template be affected by the change without having to update any markup.

This would then be used to build a search-module where user can apply filters by selecting values from dropdown lists, checkboxes etc.

Any ideas on where to begin? Ive been able to render a dropdownlist with the appropriate values but i would like to be able to dynamically change that dropdown-list to something else in the future.

This is my current setup:

@helper fillDropDown(int thisPreValue)
{
    XPathNodeIterator preValueRootElementIterator = umbraco.library.GetPreValues(thisPreValue);
    preValueRootElementIterator.MoveNext();
    XPathNodeIterator preValueIterator = preValueRootElementIterator.Current.SelectChildren("preValue", "");

<div>
    <select name="type">
        @while (preValueIterator.MoveNext())
        {
            <option value="@preValueIterator.Current.Value" @if(@Request["type"] == @preValueIterator.Current.Value) { @Html.Raw("selected"); }>
                @preValueIterator.Current.Value
            </option>
        }
    </select>
</div>
}

Thank in advance.