Hello!

How do I update the selected value of a dropdownlist page property using ContentService (or other)?

I have a property on a page called "state". This is of type Dropdown list. I've added a few prevalues in Backoffice. Now I'm trying to set the selected option of the dropdown list to one of the prevalues using ContentService.

The problem is, I don't know what it expects as a value. I tried with a string and an int and it does save the value (I can see it in the umbraco.config) as

<state><![CDATA[myValue]]></state>

. But it never updates the backoffice property selected value.

Here's my code (here I'm setting the value from an Enum):

var service = new ContentService();
var content = service.GetById(myContentId);

content.SetValue("state",DocumentState.Modified.ToString());
content.UpdateDate = DateTime.Now;

service.SaveAndPublishWithStatus(content);

public enum DocumentState
    {
        Created = 0,
        Modified = 1,
        Completed = 2,
        Removed = 3
    }

Any ideas on this would be very much appreciated :)