Hey Craig,

Yeah it should be possible you'll just need to see how the checkbox list saves it's values and then replicate this

Thanks for responding Tim.

If I change the member field type to a text field and tick a few checkboxes on the contour form then the member field is populated with "test1,test2,test3" etc..

All text values with comma delimeters. So I am thinking that this text value from the checkboxlist field is submitted as a text string but the member field type I created (of type checkboxlist originally) is actually expecting the values as integers (to match the id number of each checkbox entry) and so does not save the value from the contour form into the member field?

What do you think? If that was the case, how could I get the checkboxlist in contour to save the actual ids instead of the text to the backend?

I am loading my prevalue list from the same datatype as Im trying to save to. It is a custom datatype called "Organisation Type" with a datatype of Nvarchar.

cheers

Craig.

Hi Tim,

Further to my last post. I have started again from scratch using your example code and saving the result to a simple textstring field in the backend to see what the result is. This is the entry that appears in the field after I submit the form "System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.String]"

I have no idea why this value is appearing in the field instead of a comma separated list of values as I expected? Does this mean the form is not submitting its values correctly?

I am totally stumped on this so any help is greatly appreciated.

cheers

Craig.

Hmmm that's strange, can you share the code for your code first form?

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Web;

using Umbraco.Forms.CodeFirst;

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member;

using umbraco.BusinessLogic;

using Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes;

 

namespace Contour.Organisation

{

    

    public enum FormPages

    {

        Registration

    }

 

    public enum FormFieldsets

    {

        Details

    }

 

    [Form("Member/Organisation", ShowValidationSummary = true, MessageOnSubmit="You are now registered!")]

    public class Registration: FormBase

    {

        public const string MemberTypeAlias = "Organisation";

        public const string MemberGroupName = "Organisations";

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string Title { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration,FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory= true)]

        public string Name { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string Organisation { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption="Job title",

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string JobTitle { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory = true,

            Regex = @"(\w[-._\w]*\w@\w[-._\w]*\w\.\w{2,3})")]

        public string Email { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string Telephone { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.CheckBoxList),

            Caption = "Organisation Type",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Org Type")]

        public List<string> OrganisationType { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption = "Other Organisation Type",

            Mandatory = false)]

        public string OrganisationTypeOther { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.CheckBoxList),

            Caption = "Who benefits from your organisation's work?",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Benefits")]

        public List<string> Benefits { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.CheckBoxList),

            Caption = "What kind of activities does your organisation offer?",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Activities")]

        public List<string> Activities { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.DropDownList),

            Caption = "What area do you cover?",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Area")]

        public string Area { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption = "Other Area",

            Mandatory = false)]

        public string AreaOther { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.Textarea),

            Caption = "Describe your organisation's purpose:",

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string Purpose { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption = "Charity Number",

            Mandatory = false)]

        public string CharityNumber { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption = "Company Number",

            Mandatory = false)]

        public string CompanyNumber { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.DropDownList),

            Caption = "How did you hear about us?",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Heard")]

        public string HeardAboutUs { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Caption = "Other Method",

            Mandatory = false)]

        public string HeardAboutUsOther { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.DropDownList),

            Caption = "Can we share you details and opportunites with Volunteering Liverpool Website?",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Yes/No")]

        public string ShareDetails { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Mandatory = false,

            Type = typeof(FileUpload))]

        public string Avatar { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details, 

            Type = typeof(Password),

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string Password { get; set; }

 

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details, 

            Type = typeof(Password),

            Mandatory = true)]

        public string RepeatPassword { get; set; }

 

        public override IEnumerable<Exception> Validate()

        {

            var e = new List<Exception>();

            //checks if email isn't in use

            if(Member.GetMemberFromLoginName(Email) != null)

                e.Add(new Exception("Email already in use"));

            //makes sure the passwords are identical

            if (Password != RepeatPassword)

                e.Add(new Exception("Passwords must match"));

 

            return e;

        }

        public override void Submit()

        {

            //get a membertype by its alias

            var mt = MemberType.GetByAlias(MemberTypeAlias); //needs to be an existing membertype

            //get the user(0)

            var user = new User(0);

            //create a new member with Member.MakeNew

            var member = Member.MakeNew(Name, mt, user);

            //assign email, password and loginname

            member.Email = Email;

            member.Password = Password;

            member.LoginName = Email;

 

            //assign custom properties

            member.getProperty("benefits").Value = Benefits;

            member.getProperty("activities").Value = Activities;

            member.getProperty("orgType").Value = OrganisationType;

 

 

            //asign custom properties

            if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Avatar))

                member.getProperty("avatar").Value = Avatar;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Title))

                member.getProperty("title").Value = Title;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Organisation))

                member.getProperty("organisation").Value = Organisation;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(JobTitle))

                member.getProperty("jobTitle").Value = JobTitle;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Telephone))

                member.getProperty("telephone").Value = Telephone;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(AreaOther))

                member.getProperty("areaOther").Value = AreaOther;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(OrganisationTypeOther))

                member.getProperty("orgTypeOther").Value = OrganisationTypeOther;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CharityNumber))

                member.getProperty("charityNumber").Value = CharityNumber;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CompanyNumber))

                member.getProperty("companyNumber").Value = CompanyNumber;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeardAboutUsOther))

                member.getProperty("heardAboutUsOther").Value = HeardAboutUsOther;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HeardAboutUs))

                member.getProperty("heardAboutUs").Value = HeardAboutUs;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Purpose))

                member.getProperty("purpose").Value = Purpose;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Area))

                member.getProperty("area").Value = Area;

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ShareDetails))

                member.getProperty("shareDetails").Value = ShareDetails;

 

            //asssign a group, get the group by name, and assign its Id

            var group = MemberGroup.GetByName(MemberGroupName); //needs to be an existing MemberGroup

            member.AddGroup(group.Id);

            //generate the member xml with .XmlGenerate

            member.XmlGenerate(new System.Xml.XmlDocument());

            //add the member to the website cache to log the member in

            Member.AddMemberToCache(member);

            

        }

    }

}

Ah yes you'll need to update

member.getProperty("orgType").Value = OrganisationType;

to member.getProperty("orgType").Value = string.Join(",", OrganisationType.ToArray());

Brilliant thanks Tim. I'll give it a go shortly and update post.

Craig.

Yeah since umbraco won't handle the conversion of the List

That worked fine Tim.........finally some success for me, thank you!

I can submit a checkboxlist field and store the value in a textstring field to prove my values are transferring.

What would you suggest I do next to sort the checkboxlist to checkboxlist problem. I have changed the member field Organsisation Type back to a custom checkboxlist and the prevalues on the contour form use that same field to get a list of options for selection.

So my code to collect the field value is:

        [Field(FormPages.Registration, FormFieldsets.Details,

            Type = typeof(Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.FieldTypes.CheckBoxList),

            Caption = "Organisation Type",

            Mandatory = true,

            PrevalueSource = "Org Type")]

        public List<string> OrganisationType { get; set; }

 

and the code to pass it to the checkboxlist field in umbraco called orgType is:

member.getProperty("orgType").Value = OrganisationType;

 

Does that look correct?

 

Nope it wont match you'll still need to process the OrganisationType before setting the value

Here is a little snippet that might help

http://blog.dampee.be/post/2012/04/15/Get-a-prevalues-dropdownlist-in-Razor-(umbraco)-for-a-datatype.aspx

So add this method

public static Dictionary

while (preValueIterator.MoveNext()) { 
  retVal.Add(Convert.ToInt32(preValueIterator.Current.GetAttribute("id", "")), preValueIterator.Current.Value); 
} 
return retVal; 

}

Then you'll need the datatype id of the checkboxlist

GetPrevalues(id) and then simply use that return value to fetch the id based on the value (and store those id's instead of the values)

So from a logical point of view I feed the List string value from the contour form into the preValueIterator which takes each entry that was ticked and looks up its actual id in the datatype for the checkboxlist?

Then I store those id numbers again using the GetProperty method for the member profile?

Is that correct? Looking at the code and the snippet you listed it seems that in my case I would replace dataTypeId (in the new method) with organisationType and then use something like member.getProperty("orgType").Value = retVal; to store the list of id's in the member field.

Hopefully Ive not misunderstood but please let me know if Im not getting it!

I'll double check in a min, but the checkboxlist datatype stored a comma separated list of id's so that's what you need to feed into the member property in order to have the correct ones selected

Hmm it doesn't seem to save the id's so just feed it in a comma seperated list of values and that should work

So member.getProperty("orgType").Value = string.Join(",", OrganisationType.ToArray()); should work

How does your datatype look that you use for the orgType property, mind sharing a screenshot of that one?

Since you'll need to populate that with the same values .... but share a screenshot of that one and I'll give you some tips, think we are almost there ;)

Here you go Tim, screenshots attached.

I use this datatype as the source for the prevalue in contour as well as on the member profile page to store what the user submits on the form.

 

Ok and member.getProperty("orgType").Value = string.Join(",", OrganisationType.ToArray()); doesn't work?

No. It doesnt throw up any errors when I submit the form but looking at the member profile, the organisationType field has empty tickboxes throughout as if no value was passed to it.

The entry inside contour shows a comma separated list of values that match my datatype and I even tested submitting the value to a temporary textstring field and the value saved fine again as a comma separated list so I know Contour can save the entry to the backend.................just not to the orgType field??

Ok will give it a try and get back to you in the afternoon, must be something simple missing

Thanks Tim, appreciate your time.

Ah it does store the keys so we'll need to go from value to key's, I'll post a snippet in a min

Ok got it working :)

Add this method

       public static Dictionary<int, object> GetPrevalues(int dataTypeId)
       {
           XPathNodeIterator preValueRootElementIterator = umbraco.library.GetPreValues(dataTypeId);
           preValueRootElementIterator.MoveNext(); //move to first 
           XPathNodeIterator preValueIterator = preValueRootElementIterator.Current.SelectChildren("preValue", "");
           var retVal = new Dictionary<int, object>();

           while (preValueIterator.MoveNext())
           {
               retVal.Add(Convert.ToInt32(preValueIterator.Current.GetAttribute("id", "")), preValueIterator.Current.Value);
           }
           return retVal;
       } 

then you can do

           var vals = GetPrevalues(1049);
           var ids = new List<int>();
           foreach (var org in OrganisationType)
           {
               if (vals.ContainsValue(org))
                   ids.Add(vals.Single(x => x.Value.ToString() == org).Key);
           }

           member.getProperty("test").Value = string.Join(",", ids.ToArray());

Just make sure to pass in the correct datatype id :) (you can see that when you hover the datatype tree)

So problem was that the checkboxlist datatype will store a comma seperated list of id's (keys of the prevalues) and we need to get the id based on the value :)

Ah ok, Im trying it now.

When I add the code, visual studio isnt happy with my use of public static Dictionary. The word Dictionary is underlined with error "expected class, delegate, enum, interface or struct". Am I missing a reference somewhere?

Probably adding it to the wrong place, try adding it under the submit method

So

public override void Submit()

{

}

it goes HERE

Ok nearly there :-)

Getting an error on XPathNodeIterator now "type or namespace could not be found" and also on my use of Single "'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int,object>' does not contain a definition for 'Single' and no extension method 'Single' accepting a first argument of type"

Probably still putting things in the wrong place sorry.

 

Add using System.Linq; using System.Xml.XPath; at the top of your code file

It works! Success!

Thank you so much for helping me sort this out Tim. I can't thank you enough. :-)

AH finally, great it's working now and glad I could help out :)

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