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  • Thomas Kahn 602 posts 506 karma points
    Aug 21, 2009 @ 14:44
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    Displaying a dropdown list (data type) on a public page using XSLT?

    Hi everyone!

    I have created a data type in Umbraco that renders as a dropdown list in the Umbraco admin. Now I want to display this dropdown list on a public page using XSLT. I don't want to display the selected value  - this I have working. What I want is a whole dropdown list, just like the one in the admin interface, but I want it on the public page.

    The ugly solution would be to simply copy/paste the values, but if you changed the data type this would not be reflected on the public page.

    The dropdown needs to be generated using XSLT - I'm not working with a user control in this case.

    Thanks in advance!

    /Thomas Kahn

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  • Thomas Höhler 1237 posts 1709 karma points MVP
    Aug 21, 2009 @ 14:57
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    With umbraco.library:GetPreValues(ID_OF_DATATYPE) you get an xml like this:

    <preValues><preValue id="19">Value 1</preValue><preValue id="20">Value 2</preValue><preValue id="21">Value 3</preValue></preValues>

    So you can do your own select drop down with this.

    Thomas

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  • Thomas Höhler 1237 posts 1709 karma points MVP
    Aug 21, 2009 @ 15:02
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    here the complete code:

    <select>
      <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetPreValues(YOUR_DATATYPE_ID)//preValue">
        <option value="{@id}"><xsl:value-of select="." /></option>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </select>

    Thomas

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  • Thomas Kahn 602 posts 506 karma points
    Aug 21, 2009 @ 15:19
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    Thanks Thomas!

    Worked like a charm!

    /Thomas Kahn

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  • DanO 5 posts 26 karma points
    Apr 26, 2010 @ 20:10
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    Is there a way to do this without dynamically rebuilding an HTML control with XSLT?  Isn't there a way to directly reference the custom "data type" via .NET?  The control is being generated in the back office - can't that same .NET control be invoked on a public page?

    Thanks, DanO

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