Hi Sune,

I'm not 100% sure I understand that you are asking. But I can say that the standard values only applies to Document Types. On the Document Types you can specify a key like $key$ which will be replaced by the corresponding value upon creating a new Document based on a certain Document Type.

If you enter a prevalue on your Data Type, and that prevalue is a specified key then that value would show up on your Document Types under the Standard Values section, and when saved it will eventually be replaced by a value when you start creating Documents.

Does it make sense?

Please let me know if I misunderstood something.

- Morten

Sorry about my bad phrasing :)

Basically what I want to do is, if somebody changes a standard value I want to update the documents of the specific type. If I open a document in the content tree, my custom datatype will check the document types standard values and update them. If somebody has made changes to the standard value after the document has been created they will appear.

I'm not sure how I specify the specify the $key$ you mention? 

Best Regards

-Sune

Maybe even more basically I need to find out what Document type i am on within my datatype.

Something like Node.GetCurrent() then maybe I could look up the cmsstandardvalues table and load the content from there?

- Sune

With regards to keys, did you check out this screener? http://screenr.com/GP1 and the first screenshot on the package page?

I'm in the process of making version 1.1 and I will make a new screener this saturday, which will hopefully make the use of keys more clear. So lets take it from there.... and I can show you how to lookup standard values for a specific Document Type.

- Morten

Sounds great. Thanks.

Pretty neet feature with the keys...

- Sune

Hi again Morten.

I think i partially found the solution to my problem. In my datatype DataEditor I can fetch the standard value nodeId like this:

Document d = new Document(int.Parse(Request["id"]));
int standardvalue = Sitereactor.StandardValues.businesslogic.StandardValue.GetNodeId(d.ContentType.Id);            
umbraco.cms.businesslogic.CMSNode n = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.CMSNode(standardvalue);

I'm pretty uncertain how I can use this Id to retreive the values from the database, (ie. I can't figure out where they're placed)

- Sune

Thanks a lot. It looks like what I need :)

- Sune

Works like a charm.

I ended up doing this in my dataeditor to ensure that I always retreive the current standard values when updating a document.

 private void PageLoaded(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                Document doc = new Document(int.Parse(Request["id"]));

                ContentItemType contentItemType = new ContentItemType(doc.ContentType.Id);
                int nodeId = StandardValue.GetNodeId(contentItemType.Id);
                ContentItem contentItem = new ContentItem(nodeId);

                Property[] properties = contentItem.getProperties;
                Translation.Debug(properties.Length + "");

                var property =
                    (from p in properties
                    where p.PropertyType.Alias == this.ID
                    select p).First();
                this.originalText.Value = property.Value.ToString().Split('|')[0].TrimStart('[').TrimEnd(']');
            }
            catch (Exception ex) { Debug(ex.ToString()); }
        }

Thanks once again

- Sune

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