Hey Drew,

The webcontrols are needed if you want to render the form with the usercontrol macro if you want to render with the razor macro you'll need to setup the view

What will you be using then I can give you some extra details 

Hi Tim,

The project I'm working on is MVC based so it's razor Macros for me at pressent. I've got custom controllers setup to handle social sign in but for dealing with the longer forms where data requirements may chop and change I was hoping to use custom FieldTypes and Contour to collect data.

I've already made little modifications to my forms view files so I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing that end, it's at the FieldType and Control end I've managed to get lost.

 

Ok you don't need to worry about the webcontrol stuff then, gimme a couple of minutes and I'll post an example here

Thanks Tim thats very much appreciated. With a working example I should be able to repurpose this to all my multi textbox tasks.

Ok this is an example of an mvc only fieldtype 

The fieldtype:

   public class DoubleNameFieldType : FieldType

    {

        public DoubleNameFieldType()

        {

            //Provider

            this.Id = new Guid("26CCC50E-502F-4ED7-9000-BA1A7FDFABD3");

            this.Name = "Double name Textfield";

            this.Description = "Renders a double html input fieldKey";

            //FieldType

            this.Icon = "textfield.png";

            this.DataType = FieldDataType.String;

        }

        public override string RenderPreview()

        {

            return "<input type=\"text\" class=\"textfield\" /> <input type=\"text\" class=\"textfield\" />";

        }

        public override string RenderPreviewWithPrevalues(List<object> prevalues)

        {

            return RenderPreview();

        }

        public override List<object> ProcessValue(HttpContextBase httpContext)

        {

            List<Object> vals = new List<object>();

            var firstval = httpContext.Request[this.AssociatedField.Id.ToString()] ?? "";

            var secondval = httpContext.Request[this.AssociatedField.Id.ToString() + "_second"] ?? "";

            vals.Add(string.Concat(firstval," ",secondval));

            return vals;

        }

    }

The view:

@model Umbraco.Forms.Mvc.Models.FieldViewModel

<input type="text" name="@Model.Name" id="@Model.Id" class="text" value="" maxlength="500"

    @{if(Model.Mandatory || Model.Validate){<text>data-val="true"</text>}}

    @{if (Model.Mandatory) {<text> data-val-required="@Model.RequiredErrorMessage"</text>}}

    @{if (Model.Validate) {<text> data-val-regex="@Model.InvalidErrorMessage" data-regex="@Model.Regex"</text>}}

    />

<input type="text" name="@{@Model.Name}_second" id="@{@Model.Id}_second" class="text" value="" maxlength="500"

/>

basicly I added a second input but added _second to the name of the input

then in the fieldtype I need to override the ProcessValue method to make sure the value of this one also get's added

Link to the sourcecode: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/886345/Contour.MvcOnlyFieldType.zip (give it a couple of minutes it's still uploading)

Thanks Tim that is enoumously handy and has saved me hours of confusion. Looks like this whole process is much simpler than I thought it would be once your looking at it in MVC.

Just one more reason I can be glad I stuck to keeping this a Umbraco 6 MVC project =)

Well you'll probably need to fine tune it a bit but the basics are working and yes you don't need to worry about the webcontrols stuff :) glad I could help :)

How do I install this in Umbraco?

Unzip and drop the dll in the bin directory

Thank you Tim! Your sample helped me in getting something similar done.

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