Hi Neil

If you are using the standard Umbraco membership functionality you can access the logged in member via the following

Member currentMember = Member.GetCurrentMember();

Then if you are saving the member data within Umbraco you can use the following to retrieve the saved value.

currentMember.getProperty("firstName").Value 

However you state you want to use custom tables for data, so am not sure if the above is what you were wanting.

Cheers, Nigel

Hi Nigel

Thanks for the quick response.

Ive have the currentMember.getProperty("firstName").Value but im having trouble getting my drop down values.

I can get is ID but cant get to the textual value, is there a way to

a)get the text value of the drop down

b)get all the text and values of that drop down so i can rebind to a drop down control?

This is so if the user wants to update their city for instance they can select from the drop down which is populate from the custom property which i set in the membership section.

Cheers

Neil.

Hi Neil

Sorry but you will need to provide a bit more information around where/how you are storing the dropdown details ? Is is a custom datatype. Is it content nodes that you are outputting ?

Then a code sample of what you have tried so far would also be useful - show the code that you have used to get the ID and maybe from that a solution might be able to be provided for you, or have some ideas to get you moving forward with your work.  :-)

Cheers, Nigel

Hi Nigel

I think i may have something near now, my code is:

//GetLogged in Member
            var umbMem = Member.GetCurrentMember();

            var psswrd = umbMem.Password;
            var lgname = umbMem.LoginName;

            const int dataTypeId = 1179; <----------- Wonder if i can get this ID dynamically instead of hard coding
            int dropDownId = Convert.ToInt32(umbMem.getProperty("membertitle").Value);
            string dropDownText = string.Empty;

            SortedList preValues = PreValues.GetPreValues(dataTypeId);
            PreValue preValue = preValues.Values.Cast<PreValue>().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id == dropDownId);

            var Title = preValue;
            var Name = umbMem.getProperty("membername").Value.ToString();
            var TwitterID = umbMem.getProperty("memberTwitterID").Value.ToString();
            var FacebookID = umbMem.getProperty("facebookID").Value.ToString();
            var Position = umbMem.getProperty("position").Value.ToString();
            var Organisation = umbMem.getProperty("organisation").Value.ToString();
            var PrimarySector = umbMem.getProperty("primarySectorOrActivity").Value.ToString();
            var AddressLine1 = umbMem.getProperty("addressLine1").Value.ToString();
            var AddressLine2 = umbMem.getProperty("addressLine2").Value.ToString();
            var TownCity = umbMem.getProperty("towncity").Value.ToString();
            var County = umbMem.getProperty("county").Value.ToString();
            var postcode = umbMem.getProperty("postcode").Value.ToString();
            var Phone = umbMem.getProperty("phone").Value.ToString();
            var Subscribe = umbMem.getProperty("subscribeToOurMailingList").Value.ToString();

the Title is a custom property in the Membership properties. Its a drop down with 3 values, Mr, Mrs, Miss

I think now i have the prevalue i can loop through the SortedList preValues and populate a drop down in the usercontrol.

My only wonder is how i get the const int dataTypeId dynamically.

Hi Nigel

Thanks, yep i shall do that for now, seems a fair enough fix, i'll refactor at a later date should i find another option.

Thank you for your help, much apreciated ;)

Niel.

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