If i understand your question correctly, then u went into the umbraco backoffice, and went to the developer section, and create a custom data type with a name and a property type of DropDownList and then added some prevalues as text. If that is the case then this code will do the trick, but in my example i am doing the code inside a controller and returning it as part of a model and then returning a PartialView with myModel values

    XPathNodeIterator iterator = umbraco.library.GetPreValues(1125);
// 1125 is the ID of your custom datatype, you can see the ID of your 
// custom datatype by going to it in the backend inside the developer tab
// and checking the URL 
                iterator.MoveNext(); //move to first
                XPathNodeIterator preValues = iterator.Current.SelectChildren("preValue", "");
                while (preValues.MoveNext())
                {
                    string preValue = preValues.Current.Value;
                    int preValueId = preValues.CurrentPosition;

                    listBaneItems.Add(new SelectListItem
                    {
                        Text = preValue,
                        Value = preValue
                    });
                    myModel.ListeAfBaneOnsker = listBaneItems;
                }

Hi Casper,

Thank you very much for the info. You are absolutely correct, I did go in the backoffice, created a custom dropdown (DropX) and put in some pre-value texts in there.

And then, I created a custom ListView (say ListX) in the backoffice again and added ListX in the list view.

I am not entirely sure where to put the code you sent though. I looked everywhere in the umbraco backoffice for controllers, I cant find any. I looked within the actual site files (the entire application) but I cant find anything in there either. Can you please put me in the right direction as to where I should be inserting this code? I assume a file that has the ListX code. Sorry I am quite new to this so my lingo and references might be off. Thanks for your help again. Appreciate it.

I just found a need for this too. Anyone have any ideas? Can we somehow cleanly tap into the rendering of the listview and replace the Ids with the text equivalent?

Thanks

Just found that this was raised as an issue by Jan Bengtsson in March 2015.

Dropdown list in List View - a switch is needed

So, I suggest you vote for it to show your interest.

Regards

Ver

Anyone know if there's an out-of-the-box solution for this?

I'd rather not have to code a custom listview just to display a dropdown value...

Same problem.

We need a solution.

It would indeed be useful to display the prevalue text instead of the prevalue id. http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-6405

Instead of creating a custom listview property editor a temporary solution might be to add a custom listview layout and optionally order it as the first listview layout.

/Bjarne

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