Sorry forgot a line in the foreach statement:

                    RecordField rf = new RecordField();
                    rf.Field = field;

Fabolus thank you so much :-D

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I know there is a comment above that has been marked as the topic solution; however, the link to the posted blog is dead!

Would anyone kind enough out there, please provide me with a link to the blog which achieves adding records from a user control - or perhaps some snippets of code that helps me!

My code so far is similar to the above - but I've posted it anyway:

    protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        //Get currentNodeId

        dynamic currentNode = new DynamicNode(Node.GetCurrent());

        //The form

        RecordStorage recordStorage = new RecordStorage();

        FormStorage formStorage = new FormStorage();

        Form form = formStorage.GetForm(new Guid("1db4b81e-ec1e-45d6-a44e-a89690229d22"));

        //Recordservice

        RecordService recordService = new RecordService(form);

        recordService.Open();

        //Record

        Record record = recordService.Record;

        //Store

        record.UmbracoPageId = currentNode.Id;

        recordStorage.InsertRecord(record, recordService.Form);

        recordService.Submit();

        recordService.SaveFormToRecord();

        recordService.Dispose();

 

foreach (RecordField rf in record.RecordFields.Values)

        {

// Check form has the field"Firstname"

            if (rf.Field.Caption == "Firstname")

            {

                var firstName = record.GetRecordField("Firstname");

                firstName.Values.Clear();

// Add the inserted text from the textbox to the value of "Firstname"

                firstName.Values.Add(txtFirstName.Text);

            }

// Check the form has the field "Surname"

            if (rf.Field.Caption == "Surname")

            {

// Add the inserted text from the textbox to the value of "Surname"

                var surname = record.GetRecordField("Surname");

                surname.Values.Clear();

                surname.Values.Add(txtSurname.Text);

            }

        }

}

Similar to the OP, when btnSubmit is clicked, a record is inserted into Umbraco Contour - however, the values that are inserted above (Firstname and Surname) are not! Please see screenshot attached:

The GUID in my code matches that of the form that is set up - hence why a record is inserted.

Thanks in advance!

Since my blog is no longer online, I'll just put the post in here.

 

2010-05-19 12:18:03

I just had to programmatically add records to an Umbraco Contour Form. Since I couldn't find any documentation on how to do this, I thought I would post how I did this.

I have an input box (tbEmail) and a button (btnSubmit). On the click event of btnSubmit I got the following code, that adds a record to the form.

protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  //The Form
  var recordStorage = new RecordStorage();
  var formStorage = new FormStorage();
  var form = formStorage.GetForm(new Guid("my form guid"));

  //Recordservice
  var recordService = new RecordService(form);
  recordService.Open();

  var record = recordService.Record;
  record.IP = Request.UserHostAddress;
  record.UmbracoPageId = umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node.GetCurrent().Id;
  recordStorage.InsertRecord(record, form);
  foreach (var field in recordService.Form.AllFields)
  {
    if (field.Caption == "#Email")
    {
      var key = Guid.NewGuid();
      var recordField = new RecordField()
      {
        Field = field,
        Key = key,
        Record = record.Id,
        Values = new List<object>() { tbEmail.Text }
      };
      var recordFieldStorage = new RecordFieldStorage();
      recordFieldStorage.InsertRecordField(recordField);
      record.RecordFields.Add(key, recordField);
    }
  }
  recordService.Submit();
  recordService.SaveRecord();
  recordService.Dispose();
}

There was also a comment that makes good sence:

Nice post. I guess this should be in the API documentation. There's a possible issue with not creating all the fields to begin with, as it will be a source of possible problems if you open the form later on and try to access a field which does not exists. Question is if it's better to create all the fields and leave values as a new empty List.

Thank you very much - this works brilliantly!

Hi,

I'm creating records with this method with the /base service. It seems to work but there's a little bug somewhere. After the record is submitted, the contour page shows all values as empty.
Then after I do something with the record (like approve, edit) suddenly the values are shown.

I checked in the database and saw that the record in the table UFRecordsXml is missing all form field entries. So in the table there's only the header (first two entries):


After I approve or edit the record in contour, the fields are added to the XML. I guess I'm doing something wrong in the code... My code looks like this:

RecordStorage rs  = new RecordStorage();

FormStorage fs = new FormStorage();

Form form = fs.GetForm(new Guid("707c5d27-bb7c-4de1-8b25-b7e771e730a8"));

RecordService recServ = new RecordService(form);

recServ.Open();

 

Record rec = recServ.Record;            

rec.IP = "192.168.230.111";

rec.UmbracoPageId = 1243;

rs.InsertRecord(rec, form);

 

foreach (var item in recServ.Form.AllFields)

{

Guid key = new Guid();

RecordField rf = new RecordField();

rf.Field = item;

rf.Key = key;

rf.Record = rec.Id;

List

rf.Values = vl;

switch (item.Caption)

{

   case "Name / Company":

rf.Values = new List

break;

   case "Email":

rf.Values = new List

break;

   case "Message":

rf.Values = new List

break;

   case "Topic":

rf.Values = new List

break;

   case "RequestIP":

rf.Values = new List

break;

   default:

break;

}

RecordFieldStorage recFieldStorage = new RecordFieldStorage();

recFieldStorage.InsertRecordField(rf);

recFieldStorage.Dispose();      

}            

recServ.Submit();            

recServ.SaveFormToRecord();

recServ.Dispose();

rs.Dispose();

fs.Dispose();

 

Thank you

Matthias 

Updated:
Sorry, stupid mistake: I assigned an empty Guid to the fields, that's why trying to add the fields with rec.RecordFields.Add(key, rf); alwasy failed..

Now it works fine. 

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