Hi Jason,

Could you perhaps use the dropdown list multiple or have I misunderstood completely what you are trying to do ?

https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/Built-in-Property-Editors-v7/DropDown-List-Multiple

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

Hi Dennis,

This isn't really what I need. When a user edits a page in the back office they should have a field kind of like the related links property editor where they specify the key and then the value. Then if they wish to add another key/value to the list they click a + and it gives them another space to enter these.

It seems crazy to me that a property like this doesn't already exist as it is fundamental when creating select options on the front end.

Hi Jason, 

Okay now I see, could it be an alternative to use the multiple node tree picker, and create the select options based on which item the editor has choosen in the multiple node tree picker. https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/using-umbraco/backoffice-overview/property-editors/built-in-property-editors-v7/Multinode-Treepicker 

If you mean that it could be nice to have such a fundamental property you should create a feature request on the issue tracker http://issues.umbraco.org/

Hope this helps,

/Dennis  

Hi Dennis,

That kind of defeats the reason I want a property editor. In my view, you should only create pages in Umbraco if necessary otherwise the back-end just looks messy for the user. Creating pages in this instance would only serve the purpose of populating the multinode tree picker property which really should be reserved for linking or associating genuine Umbraco pages if you see what I mean. also, if you consider that the site is multi-lingual it means that the user will have to create several pages under each homepage node just to populate the select list with keys and values.

I would raise it as a feature request but the process for that is too slow and I don't really have the luxury of waiting :-( I would also try and create my own property type that does this but unfortunately the documentation is lacking in my opinion.

Cheers,

Jason

HI Jason, 

For documentation about creating your own property editors, there is just been added a chapter on Umbraco TV on how to create a property editor http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/developer/extending/property-editors

Hope this can help you,

/Dennis

Hi Jason, 

I just discovered this https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-7/using-umbraco-7/64690-Simple-package-not-available-TextValue-Dropdown-List thread on the forum, could it be the same that you want, if so then try write in the thread, maybe it can become a package for everyone else.

/Dennis

Hi Jason

Was it a package like this you were looking for? https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/key-value-editor

/Bjarne

probably late, but this one I am going to use myself key value editor

I believe I know a datatype that can build lists in a format like key-value pair. Just built and compatible with umbraco 9.4 Checkout at https://github.com/yelena870513/umbraco9keyvalue_editor

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