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  • Simon Dingley 1431 posts 3332 karma points c-trib
    Jan 04, 2017 @ 14:24
    Simon Dingley
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    Setting Hidden Field Values to Current or parent page name

    I have a form that is reused in different places throughout a site and I need to populate a hidden field value with the name of a page if the current page is of the document type x and if the document type is actually of type y then I need to populate it with the parent page name. So essentially, I want to populate it with Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf("doctypealias").Name.

    Is this possible?

    Thanks, Simon

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  • David Peck 615 posts 1646 karma points c-trib
    Jan 04, 2017 @ 15:01
    David Peck
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    Could you not create a custom field type and the put your code in to the razor view for for that field?

    It might need to be changed like so:

    @{
    var umbraco = new UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);
    var  currentPage = umbraco.TypedContent(UmbracoContext.Current.PageId);
}
<input type="hidden" name="@Model.Name" id="@Model.Id" class="hidden" value="@(currentPage.AncestorOrSelf("doctypealias").Name)"/>
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  • David Peck 615 posts 1646 karma points c-trib
    Jan 04, 2017 @ 15:01
    David Peck
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    If you've not done custom field types: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/products/umbracoforms/developer/extending/adding-a-fieldtype

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  • Simon Dingley 1431 posts 3332 karma points c-trib
    Jan 04, 2017 @ 18:23
    Simon Dingley
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    Thanks David, I had thought about it but wondered if there was an out of the box solution. If not then I will go down that route so thanks for the tip.

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  • Simon Dingley 1431 posts 3332 karma points c-trib
    Jan 04, 2017 @ 19:14
    Simon Dingley
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    In case it's of help to anyone else I simply inherited from the existing HiddenField type and overrode the Id, FieldTypeViewName, Name & Description values as follows:

    public sealed class MyFieldType: HiddenField
{
    public MyFieldType()
    {
        //Provider
        this.Id = new Guid("F7D1D505-4B28-4EDC-937F-500DF84F77AF");
        this.FieldTypeViewName = "FieldType.MyFieldType.cshtml";
        this.Name = "My Field Type";
        this.Description = "My field type description.";
    }
}
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