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Bear 40 posts 129 karma points

Jul 17, 2014 @ 16:54
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Prepopulate dropdown list for use in workflow

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Ok, I need to pre populate a drop down before I show it in a WorkflowType.

Using the code below;
```
    [Umbraco.Forms.Core.Attributes.Setting("Method", description = "Testing", prevalues = "List 1,List 2,List 3", control = "Umbraco.Forms.Core.FieldSetting.Dropdownlist")]
    public string MadMimiMailingList { get; set; }
```
Gives me;

Which is sort of what I want, but I want to show my own data dynamically. I know I can just change this value and it'd show me whatever I like - but the values I want to use are not constant or static.
```
prevalues = "List 1,List 2,List 3"
```
I can change this value and the dropdown changes, but I don't know how to set it dynamically - ideally I'd call a method that would give me a list of prevalues

I have studied the infamous Country Dropdown, but that's for use within the forms, not on the actual workflow...
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Kevin Lawrence 183 posts 350 karma points

Jul 17, 2014 @ 17:52

Is it possible to use the Settings method override? Compile the settings in there and you should be able to dynamically build the PreValues.

EDIT: You've probably worked it out by now but:

      public override Dictionary<string, Setting> Settings()
      {
         var settings = base.Settings();
         settings["Method"].prevalues = "test1,test2,test3";

         return settings;
      }

Cheers

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Bear 40 posts 129 karma points

Jul 17, 2014 @ 19:02

Thank you! The only bit I had to change was the settings["MadMimiMailingList"] to be the name of my property.

The final, working code...

[Setting("Mailing List", description = "Please select the MadMimi mailing list", prevalues = "List 1,List 2,List 3", control = "Umbraco.Forms.Core.FieldSetting.Dropdownlist")]
    public string MadMimiMailingList { get; set; }

    public override Dictionary<string, Setting> Settings()
    {
        var settings = base.Settings();

        // open new api
        var madMimiApi = new MadMimiApi();

        // try and get all the lists
        var allAvailableLists = madMimiApi.GetAllLists();

        var preValues = String.Join(",", (allAvailableLists.Select(list => list.Name).ToArray()));

        // add to prevalues
        settings["MadMimiMailingList"].prevalues = preValues;

        // done
        return settings;
    }

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Ismail Mayat 4511 posts 10090 karma points MVP 2x admin c-trib

Jul 18, 2014 @ 15:23

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Wow that is awesome did not know you could do that!!!

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Jul 21, 2014 @ 15:16

Yeah same here :) awesome

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Jul 21, 2014 @ 15:17

You could also create a custom field setting type, but guess this is easier

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antao 81 posts 371 karma points

Mar 24, 2015 @ 14:47

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Still concerning this, is it possible to get the name of the current form that has this workflow in this method?

public override Dictionary

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