Hi Kim,

I suggest you have a look at the rest contour package http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/cultiv-restcontour.

The base extensions should provide you with the api calls needed.

One note though, not sure if it has been tested with an external datasource.

Hi Harald

Thanks for the link. I think it is very helpful, but do you know where I can find the code, as I seem to only be able to download a package with compiled code?

Thanks a lot in advance once again :)

Kim

Uh, crap. I thougt it came with code.

Here's some code I have for importing csv data.

Hope this helps,
Harald

FormStorage formStorage = new FormStorage();
            Form = formStorage.GetForm(formId);
                    
using (RecordService recordService = new RecordService(Form))
                    {
                        recordService.Open();

                        Record record = recordService.Record;
                        record.IP = IpAddress;
                        record.UmbracoPageId = PageId;

                        recordStorage.InsertRecord(record, Form);


                        foreach (Field field in recordService.Form.AllFields)
                        {

                            //create empty field 
                            var recordField = new RecordField()
                            {
                                Field = field,
                                Key = Guid.NewGuid(),
                                Record = record.Id,
                                Values = new List<object>()
                            };

                            
                            if (FieldMappings.ContainsKey(field.Id))
                            {
                                if (field.PreValueSource.Type != null)
                                {
                                    recordField.Values.Add(prevalues.Where(p => p.Key.Key == field.Id).
                                        Select(p => p.Value.Where(pv => pv.Value == csvData.Values[p.Key.Value]).First()).First().Id.ToString());
                                }
                                else 
                                    recordField.Values.Add(csvData.Values[FieldMappings[field.Id]]);
                            }

                            var recordFieldStorage = new RecordFieldStorage();
                            recordFieldStorage.InsertRecordField(recordField);
                            record.RecordFields.Add(recordField.Key, recordField);


                        }
                        recordService.Submit();
                        //recordService 
                        result.RecordId = record.Id;
                    }

Hey Kim,

Contour doesn't store any relation between the internal record and the record in the datasource, so making the edit work with a datasource won't be easy (if even possible)

First step would be to store a relation between the datasource and the internal record once you have that you should be able to perform an update on the datasource

Hi Guys

Thanks a lot for your swift answers. They are very helpful :) I'lll experiment some more to see if I can make it work, and post my findings if successful. @Tim, is there a way to load the editform dynamically with my own custom data? And is there a submit event that I can subscribe to? If not would that be something that would make sense to add to Contour in the future?

Once again, thanks a lot for your answers :)

Kim

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