I'm guessing you are actually saving the reference to the property (Id) Ditto uses to build the property value.

What you probably want to do is to serialize the object - before adding it to the extended data collection.

Something like

 // Assuming the type of the ditto object is a newable class
  var myObj = JsonConvert.Serialize(dittoObject);

Can you post the code you are using to add your value to the ExtendedDataCollection?

Hi Rusty,

I've extended the ProductContentModel within the Bazaar library as follows:

 public class ProductContentModel
{      
    public string AltTitle { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public HtmlString About { get; set; }        

    public string InstructionFile { get; set; }

    public HtmlString Delivery { get; set; }

    public string ExtraContentTitle { get; set; }

    public HtmlString ExtraContent { get; set; }

    public string CartWarning { get; set; }

    public string ProductType { get; set; }

    [DittoValueResolver(typeof(CustomResolvers.BoxColourResolver))]
    public string BoxColour { get; set; }

    [TypeConverter(typeof(DittoPickerConverter))]
    public IEnumerable<FAQModel> FAQs { get; set; }

}

Then on the ProductCollection.cshtml I've got this

  @foreach (var product in page.Products)
                {
                    var prod = product.As<ProductContentModel>();

                    var boxc = ContentHelper.BoxColour(prod.BoxColour);

And because I needed it to work I put in a temp fix to bodge it which basically manually checks the number and puts in the right string, as the resolves still brings through a number.

Resolver code below:

public class BoxColourResolver : DittoValueResolver
    {
        public override object ResolveValue()
        {
            var colour = Content.GetProperty("boxColour").Value;

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(colour.ToString()))
                colour = "purple"; //default

            return colour;
        }
    }

    public class BoxSizeResolver : DittoValueResolver
    {
        public override object ResolveValue()
        {
            return Content.GetProperty("BoxSize").Value;
        }
    }

As I've said the datatype is just a standard dropdown list within umbraco and works fine on the main view pages. It's just via products it's not pulling the data. Anything you can suggest to make this cleaner would be much appreciated!

regards, Michelle

Hi Rusty,

I've upgraded to umbraco 7.4.3 and have installed merchello 2.0.1. This issue is still happening, I'm having to build support switch statements to get the correct values through.

regards, Michelle

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