Hi Avo,

Do you mean a DropDownList on within Umbraco ? if so you could look at using the UltimatePicker or the XPath DropDownList (which is in uComponents)

HTH,.

Hendy

Hi Ayo,

You can try wrapping your select around a loop and get it to trigger like that

<select name="Name" id="yourId" onChange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_self')">
  <option value="/">Make a choice</option>
    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($source)/* [@isDoc and string(umbracoNaviHide) != '1']">
      <option value="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
          <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/>
      </option>
  </xsl:for-each>
</select>

Sorry if my intial question was unclear, let me try again.

I have a form which is a user control (.ascx file) and this usercontrol has been placed on a template, the form is rendering fine at the moment.

What I want to do is, load one of the form controls a drop down list with a list of node names.

I assume from the xslt above provided by Fuji I will have to use a umbrco library method to retrive the required data on the page_load event of my user control then use a loop to add them to my drop down list.........am I right?

any c# code welcome ;-)

Thanks

using umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory;

Node node = new umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node(NODEIDHERE);
Nodes childrenNodes = node.Children;

This is the answer by the way I found it on another post. I thought it would be good to post the asnswer just in case someone else needs help.

I'm back 30mins later with my begging bowl, Yes I am getting the nodes that I want back, but I can't find where the name of the node will be so I can do some kind of loop and add the names of the nodes to a drop down list........

hellllppppppppp

thanks ;-)

private void DoSomethingWithAllNodesByType(int NodeId, string typeName) { var node = new Node(nodeId); foreach (Node childNode in node.Children) { var child = childNode; if (child.NodeTypeAlias == typeName) { //Do something } if (child.Children.Count > 0) GetAllNodesByType(child, typeName); } }
OK Fixed my own problem again.....Hope someone else finds this...who needs it chow.

Hey Ayo,

If you are using the uComponents package, then be sure to take a look at the uQuery library methods - they may just make your dev time easier? http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=uQuery

We have a method called "uComponents.Core.uQuery.GetNodesByType(string documentTypeAlias)" ... this will get all the nodes for that doc-type alias.  But if you need to do something more complex, say getting all child-nodes of a certain doc-type, then you could do this using an XPath ...

var nodes = uQuery.GetNodesByXPath(string.Concat("descendant::*[@id = ", nodeId ,"]/descendant::", documentTypeAlias, "[@isDoc]"));

Cheers, Lee.

Have a look at this wiki post: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/code-snippets/databind-node-children. It shows 3 ways to databind the children to a checkboxlist. You can also use it for a dropdownlist.

Jeroen

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