Hi Mike,

If you share your code I could take a look at what is going wrong.

Cheers,
Tim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Tim,

Thanks for taking a look...

Here goes!  (sorry it looks odd - seems to do some interesting formatting when I paste from VS. )

I hope this makes sense - this is my attempt to split the text value for the checkbox list item into two parts (value and alias) so that the alias can be stored as an attribute of the item.

 

public class OWorkflowCheckboxList : FieldType

{

 

private OWFCheckboxList cbl;  //A custom extended checkboxlist control where I attempted to split the checkbox item text into 2 parts as in this code also.

 

private List<object> _value;

 

public OWorkflowCheckboxList()

{

 

this.Id = new Guid("9255717A-BE66-4835-87DF-8B86CE3CA7C4");

 

this.Name = "OWorkflowCheckBoxList";

 

this.Description = "Renders a checkbox list with aliases and assignment categories.....or so I hoped!";

 

this.Icon = "checkboxlist.png";

 

this.DataType = FieldDataType.String;

_value =

new List<object>();

}

 

 

public override List<object> Values

{

 

get

{

 

if (cbl != null && cbl.SelectedIndex > -1) {

_value.Clear();

 

foreach (System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem item in cbl.Items) {

 

if

(item.Selected)

{

_value.Add(item);

}

}

}

 

return _value;

}

 

set

{

_value =

value;

}

}

 

public override System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl Editor

{

 

 

get

{

cbl =

new OWFCheckboxList();

cbl.CssClass =

"checkboxlist";

cbl.RepeatLayout = System.Web.UI.WebControls.

RepeatLayout.Flow;

 

if (this.AssociatedField.PreValueSource != null)

{

 

foreach (var prevalue in this.AssociatedField.PreValueSource.Type.GetPreValues(this.AssociatedField))

{

 

string value = Umbraco.Forms.Data.DictionaryHelper.GetText(prevalue.Value);

System.Web.UI.WebControls.

 

ListItem item = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem(GetItemValue(value), GetItemAlias(value));

item.Attributes.Add(

"Alias", GetItemAlias(value));

//try this too

 

if

(_value.Contains(GetItemValue(value)))

item.Selected =

true;

cbl.Items.Add(item);

}

}

 

return cbl;

}

 

set

{

 

base.Editor = value;

}

}

 

 

public override string

RenderPreview()

{

 

return "<div class=\"owfcheckboxlist\"></div>";

}

 

public override string RenderPreviewWithPrevalues(List<object> prevalues)

{

 

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

sb.Append(

 

"<div class=\"owfcheckboxlist\">"

);

 

foreach (var prevalue in prevalues)

{

 

sb.Append(

 

string.Format("<p><input type='checkbox' alias='{0}'/> <label>{1}</label></p>"

, GetItemAlias(prevalue.ToString()), GetItemValue(prevalue.ToString())));

}

sb.Append(

 

"</div>"

);

 

return

sb.ToString();

}

 

 

public override bool

SupportsPrevalues

{

 

get

{

 

return true;

}

}

 

 

 

private string GetItemValue(string value)

{

 

return

SplitValue(value)[0];

}

 

private string GetItemAlias(string value)

{

 

return

SplitValue(value)[1];

}

 

private string[] SplitValue(string

value)

{

 

string[] retStr = new string[2];

 

int startDelimiter = value.IndexOf(DELIMITERSTART);

 

if

(startDelimiter >= 0)

{

 

int endDelimiter = value.IndexOf(DELIMITEREND, startDelimiter);

 

if

(endDelimiter > 0)

{

endDelimiter +=

DELIMITEREND.Length;

retStr[1] = value.Substring(startDelimiter, endDelimiter - startDelimiter);

retStr[0] = value.Remove(startDelimiter, endDelimiter - startDelimiter);

}

 

else

{

retStr[0] = value;

retStr[1] =

string.Empty;

}

}

 

else

{

retStr[0] = value;

retStr[1] =

string.Empty;

}

 

return

retStr;

Thanks Mike, will take a detailed look and come back to you with more info.

Any joy with this? cheers for taking a look though. Seems like an oversight not having a way to alias individual checkboxlist items or have them selectable in field-mapping control. :(

Hi Tim, I don't suppose you have been able to take a look at this yet? Unfortunately it is rather holding things up on a custom contour workflow project that is already overdue. Any pointers would be very useful, Thanks, Mike

Hi Mike,

So depending on the choice made in the checkboxlist you want to execute a different action in the workflow?

Can't you simply base the condition on the value?

Hi Tim, I will have to use the text if there is no other way  but the text of items will likely be altered and so having an alias or useful ID to link up with the rules engine would make more sense for maintainability. Cheers, Mike

Sort of missing the alias myself. 

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