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Edgar Rasquin 326 posts 925 karma points

Mar 03, 2017 @ 08:47

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Options List in a contact form

Hi there,

I am stuck with a problem:

I have a Contact Form in an partial view. Now I need a 2-level List where different options can be picked:

Any ideas?

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Shola 65 posts 273 karma points

Mar 03, 2017 @ 18:03

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You should use conditions when you're setting up the checkbox lists. For a checkbox list, you want to only show it if the dropdown has a specific value correct?

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Edgar Rasquin 326 posts 925 karma points

Mar 06, 2017 @ 08:18

Hi Shola,

thanks for your reply. As far as I understand this is part of Umraco Forms. I'm not using Umbraco Forms.

By now I managed to get to show the Kategory - Skills level structure by simply Building an own node on home level and displaying these in a foreach Loop in my form.

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Here is my Code in the _contactEx.cshtml

<div class="col_full col_last">
        @{
            var rootNodes = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot();
            //var homeNodeByAlias = rootNodes.First(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "category");
            var homeNodeById = rootNodes.First(x => x.Id == 1478);
            var kategories = homeNodeById.Children;



            foreach (var kat in kategories)
            {
                if (kat.Children.Any())
                {
                    TempData["kat"] = @kat.Name;
                    <div class="toggle toggle-border">
                        <div class="togglet"><i class="toggle-closed icon-ok-circle"></i><i class="toggle-open icon-remove-circle"></i>@kat.Name</div>
                        @skills(kat.Children)
                    </div>

                }
            }

            @helper skills(dynamic pages)
            {

                var skillName = "";

                <div class="togglec" style="display: none;">
                    @foreach (var page in pages)
                    {
                        skillName = String.Format("{0}-{1}", TempData["kat"], @page.Name);
                        <div>
                            <input id="@skillName" class="checkbox-style" name="Skills" type="checkbox" value="@skillName" checked>
                            <label for="@skillName" class="checkbox-style-3-label checkbox-small">@page.Name</label>
                        </div>
                    }
                </div>

            }
        }
    </div>

My Problem now is how to get the values of the checkboxes in my controller.

Any ideas?

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Edgar Rasquin 326 posts 925 karma points

Mar 06, 2017 @ 09:39
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OK, solved!

for collecting the hardcoded checkbox values in the controller you just need to keep the name of the checkboxes the same.

First you write the following line in the Model:

model.cs:
```
public IEnumerable<string> Skills { get; set; }
```
In your form.cshtml you create your checkboxes, make shure the name attribute stays the same for all checkboxes:

form.cshtml:
```
 <input id="@skillName" class="checkbox-style" name="Skills" type="checkbox" value="@skillName">
```
In your controller.cs you just need to collect the value and like in my example Loop through the values to write them in the response email body:

Controller.cs:
```
//Skills
            int skillCount = 0;



            foreach (var skill in model.Skills)
            {
                message.Body += "<br>";
                message.Body += "Skill" + skillCount + ":" + skill + "<br>";
                skillCount++;
            }
```
Cheers
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