Hey Adam

Could you tell me if you are using the usercontrol or razor macro, depending on that I can give you some tips :)

Hi Tim,

Using XSLT running on the "form submitted" action within Contour.

Yeah that's the workflow but how are you inserting the form on your pages? Or maybe you are running an older Contour version (before v3) that only has the usercontrol macro

As of yet none - I'm just testing atm ;-) but I'll be using the RazorRenderForm macro.

Happy to use either depending on what solution you have.

Ok :) well the razor one offers more flexibility, will do some tests and get back to you with some advice :)

Excellent thanks Tim, appreciate it!

Ok several ways to do this but think this will be easiest:

Update the dropdown view so it also includes the id in the value, maybe seperated with | (so it's easy to split afterwards)

Details on customizing the views can be found here http://our.umbraco.org/projects/umbraco-pro/contour/documentation/Developer/Custom-Markup/

Now in you xslt that transforms the mail, fetch the id from the value (splitting on the | ) and use that id to fetch the node by id 

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbracolibrary/getxmlnodebyid-(1)

And from that you should be able to fetch the property you want

Make sense?

Perfect sense. Thanks Tim. I'll give this a go and let you know how I get on. 

Cool hope you get it working :)

OK here's where I am:

FieldType.DropDownList.cshtml under Umbraco>Plugins>umbracoContour>Views changed to:

@model Umbraco.Forms.Mvc.Models.FieldViewModel
<select name="@Model.Name" id="@Model.Id"
@if (Model.Mandatory){<text> data-val="true" data-val-required="@Model.RequiredErrorMessage"</text>}>
    <option value="-- Select an option --"></option>
    @foreach (var pv in Model.PreValues)    {
        <option value="@pv.Id" 
        @if (Model.ContainsValue(pv.Value))
        {<text>selected="selected"</text>}
        >@pv.Value</option>
    }
</select>

which is outputting a nice ddl with the ID of the nodes as the option values:

<select id="faacb8eb-8b10-44bd-a351-5361f07ae11e" class="valid" data-val-required="Please select a venue" data-val="true" name="faacb8eb-8b10-44bd-a351-5361f07ae11e">
<option value="-- Select an option --"></option>
<option value="1118">Aylesbury</option>
<option value="1577">Belfast</option>
<option value="1578">Birmingham</option>
<option value="1579">Brentwood</option>
...

<xsl:variable name="venueValue" select="$records//fields/child::* [caption = 'Venue']//value"/>
<xsl:variable name="node" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($venueValue)" />

<!-- Output venue email address (test) -->
<xsl:value-of select="$node/venueEmailAddress"/>

<!-- TEST OUTPUT -->
<xsl:value-of select="$venueValue"/> 

I suppose the other question is, is it possible in XSLT to get the ID of a node by using the node name?

Tim.

I should have just listened to you closely in the first place! When replacing the option value with either id or value, the value is saved in the database. When a different string is used, ie 

<option value="@pv.Value  (@pv.Id)" 

all is well and you can then split the string as you suggested.

Final code for others, if it helps:

@model Umbraco.Forms.Mvc.Models.FieldViewModel
<select name="@Model.Name" id="@Model.Id"
@if (Model.Mandatory){<text> data-val="true" data-val-required="@Model.RequiredErrorMessage"</text>}
>
    <option value="-- Select an option --"></option>
    @foreach (var pv in Model.PreValues)
    {
        <option value="@pv.Value  (@pv.Id)" 
        @if (Model.ContainsValue(pv.Value))
        {<text>selected="selected"</text>}
        >@pv.Value</option>
    }
</select>

<xsl:variable name="venueValue" select="$records//fields/child::* [caption = 'Venue']//value"/>
<xsl:variable name="first" select="substring-before($venueValue, ')')" /> 
<xsl:variable name="remaining" select="substring-after($first, '(')" />
<xsl:variable name="node" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($remaining)" />
<xsl:value-of select="$node/clubEmailAddress"/> 

Thanks for your assistance Tim. I just need to pull the email address into SendMail() now and I'm done!

Great :)

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