Hi Tony,

I'm sure an xslt would do fine here, you don't need to have a new datatype for this (It's would be too static as you'd have to add new prevalues when new pages are created).

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version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library">








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Above code snippet should get you started (will have to change some properties...)

Hope this helps.

Regards,
/Dirk

Hi Thanks for the response,

The drop down list I want to create is going to need to go on a tab on a document type, is this going to be possible using the XSLT you specified. Basically the idea is that when someone creates a new Article (using the Article document type I have created) they are going to be able to select the Edition that the Article belongs to from a dropdown menu and as I mentioned previously I want the drop down to populate with a list of Editions.

Also I am new to all this XSLT business and not entirely sure which parts of your XSLT I would need to edit so that it picks up the correct pages to add to the dropdown. I really appreciate the help, cheers.

I've used an "Ultimate Picker" to create a new Data Type. You give it a parent node ID and it then lists all child nodes.

The Data Type is then used on a Document Type to enable the selection of a number nodes.

I used it in Listitem mode, but it does dow dropdown too.

is that what you mean / need?

Thank you ascendinternet, that is exactly what I needed. That works perfectly.

Hi,

I have another question regarding this, I am now trying to filter results based on my dropdown list that I created but it doesn't seem to work. Am I right in thinking that the values in the dropdown are not stored as they appear? For example the dropdown is populated as shown:

Winter 2008
Autumn 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008

The dropdown alias is 'edition' and I want to filter results according to edition so I have used the following code in my XSLT:



Nothing seems to happen but if I try to filter using a dropdown that is manually populated then it works. Any ideas?

The picker will show you the node name, but it stores the node ID. You probably need to use umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById() to get the node, then you can refer to to the @nodeName or whatever info you need.

Hi,

Thanks for the response, how do I use umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(), where would I put it in my code?

You basically pass it a nodeID and it returns the node. So, you would need something like -
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Thank you for your reply, I did try this but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, there is no output on the page, so far the code I have is as follows:

As mentioned previously I have a drop down menu on the "Article" document type that has the alias of "edition" and it is an ultimate picker that is populated by the child nodes of a page called "Edition List"which is as follows:

Edition List
-Winter 2008
-Autumn 2008
-Summer 2008
-Spring 2008

I appreciate any further help yourself or anyone else can offer. Cheers Tony

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