Hi everyone!

I've just created a custom property editor which has been working pretty fine up until now. I'm getting a checkbox list from a service and storing the selected values in umbraco. The thing is, by default, any custom property editor stores values in the [dataNvarchar] column in the database and recently, when we tried to save a string bigger than 500 characters, the backoffice reacts like this:

• the backoffice updates the model.value;
• the database doesn't get any value stored;

• and on the console I get this:

  POST http://localhost:57462/umbraco/backoffice/UmbracoApi/Content/PostSave 500 (Internal Server Error)

  TypeError: data.indexOf is not a function (and so on...)

Now, it didn't take long to realize that the problem was the fact that I was exceeding the 500 character limit, so I looked for a way of changing the dataType and I found this tutorial on the package.manifest: http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/tutorials/manifest

So, I've tried with both valueType: "TEXT" and valueType: "JSON" attributes (since both store values in dataNtext) to my property editor in the package.manifest, cleared the browser cache, restarted the app pool, and... nothing happened! It keeps on getting the value from the dataNvarchar instead of dataNtext column and storing in it (which is what I want/need).

My package.manifest:

{
    propertyEditors: [
        {
            alias: "SurroundingTypesSelector", 
            name: "Surrounding types selector",
            editor: {
                view: "~/App_Plugins/SurroundingTypesSelector/selector.editor.html",
                valueType: "JSON"
            }
        }
    ], 

    javascript: [
        "~/App_Plugins/SurroundingTypesSelector/selector.controller.js"
    ]
}

Any ideas on why?!

Thanks! :)