Hi all,

I have the following scenario: I've made a custom fieldtype from the Contour HiddenField webcontrol. This field is used for storing a GUID when the form has been submitted.

My custom field type looks like this:

public class CustomHiddenField: FieldType
    {
        public HiddenField TextField;
        public List<Object> Value;

        public CustomHiddenField()
        {
            this.Name = "Custom hidden field";
            this.Id = new Guid("3601C4F3-D7AB-4AC1-AF4A-80E477077EBB");
            this.Description =
                "My custom hidden field";
            this.Icon = "hiddenfield.png";
            this.DataType = FieldDataType.String;
            TextField = new HiddenField();

        }

        public override System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl Editor
        {
            get
            {
                TextField.Value = Value[0].ToString();
                return TextField;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Editor = value;
            }
        }

        public override List<object> Values
        {
            get
            {
                Value.Clear();
                Value.Add(TextField.Value);
                return Value;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Values = value;
            }
        }

        public override bool SupportsRegex
        {
            get { return true; }
        }

        public override string RenderPreview()
        {
            return "<input type=\"hidden\" />";
        }

        public override string RenderPreviewWithPrevalues(List<object> prevalues)
        {
            return RenderPreview();
        }
    }

Then, I've created a custom workflow for setting the value in this field when the form has been submitted:

public class CustomWorkflow: WorkflowType
    {
        public CustomWorkflow()
        {
            this.Name = "My custom workflow";
            this.Id = new Guid("B2A2BF39-261D-4C1F-BD6B-96D2C8D8C314");
            this.Description =
                "My custom workflow";
        }

        public override WorkflowExecutionStatus Execute(Record record, RecordEventArgs e)
        {
            // Try get the custom hidden field
            var customField =
                record.RecordFields.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value.Field.FieldTypeId.ToString().Equals("3601C4F3-D7AB-4AC1-AF4A-80E477077EBB"));

            // Check if the field was found in this collection
            if(customField.Value != null)
            {
                customField.Value.Values.Clear();
                customField.Value.Values = new List<object> {Guid.NewGuid().ToString().Replace("-", string.Empty)};
                var storage = new RecordStorage();
                storage.UpdateRecord(record, e.Form);
                storage.Dispose();

                return WorkflowExecutionStatus.Completed;
            }

            return WorkflowExecutionStatus.Cancelled;
        }

        public override List<Exception> ValidateSettings()
        {
            return new List<Exception>();    
        }
    }

So basically, whenever a field of my custom hidden field is found, it sets its value to a new GUID (without the dashed, though)

I've debugged my workflow code and it runs as it should, but there's no data in the field when I look at the entries in Contour. I've tried placing it in Submitted and Approved workflows, but without any result.

Does anyone know why? :-)

Thanks in advance,

Bo