Hi James

We do similar to your requirement- we built a property editor to display content stored in a multi textstring property on a config node. The editor allows users to make a selection from the dropdown and then store a string value against that selection.

I'd create a new property editor, with two prevalues - one for the id of the config node and one for the alias of the source property. In the editor controller, use contentResource.getById() to look up the node using the id, then get the list of breeds from the node. Once you've got the data, you can use it as the model for the dropdown in your new editor.

Super simple and dirty Angular to grab the breed list (eg should be breaking out of the loops once a match is found):

contentResource.getById(nodeId).then(function (resp) {
    var breeds;
    angular.forEach(resp.tabs, function (tab) {
        angular.forEach(tab.properties, function (prop) {
            if (prop.alias === 'dogBreeds') {
                breeds = prop;
            }
        });
    });

    console.log(breeds.value);

});

There's decent documentation around building a property editor available here.

Hope that helps.

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