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Is it possible to populate drop-down prevalues from an external source in the back end?
Example
I have a Blog entry and want to add an Author Dropdown which should be populated from and external API.
Where would I place this code? Are there any examples out there? I can see how to do this when rendering a frontend page, but not the backend.
Thanks in advance.
Hi there!
To create a custom dropdown with values from an external api, you would need to create a custom property editor.
You can find more information about custom property editors in the umbraco documentation.
Hi
you might be able to do this with the contentment package.
https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment
it allows you to have a json data source for dropdowns/etc.
Thank you both for your answers. I've used the Contentment package first and that's working fine.
I will have a play with creating custom property editors too.
Best regards
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Is it possible to populate drop-down prevalues from an external source in the back end?
Example
I have a Blog entry and want to add an Author Dropdown which should be populated from and external API.
Where would I place this code? Are there any examples out there? I can see how to do this when rendering a frontend page, but not the backend.
Thanks in advance.
Hi there!
To create a custom dropdown with values from an external api, you would need to create a custom property editor.
You can find more information about custom property editors in the umbraco documentation.
Hi
you might be able to do this with the contentment package.
https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-contentment
it allows you to have a json data source for dropdowns/etc.
Thank you both for your answers. I've used the Contentment package first and that's working fine.
I will have a play with creating custom property editors too.
Best regards
is working on a reply...