I have a quick question. I've created a custom drop-down HTML control that dynamically grabs "nodes" from a database. I turned this into an Umbraco (v7) datatype that can be used as an Umbraco property in the admin section.

Unfortunately, when the user picks one of the items and saves, it does not properly store this info. I've determined that this is because when Umbraco tries to save to the DB, it's NodeId is empty. I need to populate this before we save the data. Unfortunately, I haven't found any easy way to do this.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Populating the NodeId before I push the model to the CS Controller (which should update the SQL DB) should work... or is it possible to make an angularJS that pushes TWO parameters and let the C# handle this?

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advanced.

Here's the HTML Editor:

    <select ng-controller="Dmns.DDLAllNodesController" data-ng-model="selectedOption">
        <option ng-repeat="gNode in galaxyNodes.data" value="{{gNode}}">
            {{gNode.KioskNodeId}} -- {{gNode.MachineName}} 
        </option>
    </select>

And here's the AngularJS, where I'd like to add the Umbraco's Node Id to the model before submitting to the C#

     $scope.$on("formSubmitting", function () {
            $scope.selectedOption({
                Id: $routeParams.Id // This does not update properly
            });
            $scope.$apply();
            getAllNodesResource.save($scope.selectedOption); // Sends old data
        });

And here's the model I'm returning, in case this helps:

[Serializable]
    [DataContract]
    public class KioskNode
    {
        [DataMember]
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public int NodeId { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public int KioskNodeId { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public string MachineName { get; set; }
    }