Stephen,

Are you trying to do this from xslt? Or Razor? Some starting code snippets:

<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::*[@isDoc]//* [name() = 'aliasOfDocumentType']>
  <input type="checkbox" name="" id="" value="{./@nodeName}"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" /></input>
</xsl:for-each>

@foreach (var node in @Model.NodeById(-1).Descendants("aliasOfDocumentType")) {
  <input type="checkbox" name="" id="" value="@node.Name"><xsl:value-of select="@node.Name" /></input>
}

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

thats ideal Dirk, i'll maybe try the razor version as I've been meaning to get into this...this leads me to another question...

I've created a member type which contains additional info on the staff member and I've created a new property for office/location, how would i get the new checbox list t appear in my type dropdown or should i go about this in a different way?

S

Hi Stephen,

If you want a checkbox / dropdown list in the Umbraco back office (to be populated with content nodes), the uCompoents XPathCheckBoxList or XPathDropDownList could be useful.

HTH,

Hendy

there's two things to be aware of

- for each member, the selected values from the checkbox list are stored in db in table cmsPropertyType (not sure whether it' stored as a comma separated string or as an xml fragment). Also be aware that values stored in db may be different than values stored in xml cache (id's vs values)

- the possible values for the checkbox list (there's some static functions in the umbraco.library class that would return a list of possible values...)

Hope this helps you getting started. But as mentioned on other post, try to find out whether those packages may be a good fit for your case.

Cheers,

/Dirk

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