Hey Kenny,

Yeah for that you'll need to set a prevalue source so instead of setting the Prevalues set PrevalueSource 

You can also create prevalue sources from code 

As an example this creates one of the type UmbracoPrevaluesReadOnly (that uses datatype prevalues) of the datatype with id 1234

  [PrevalueSource("From umbraco")]

    public class CustomPrevalueSource: PrevalueSourceBase

    {

        public override Umbraco.Forms.Core.FieldPreValueSourceType Type

        {

            get 

            {

                var prevalueSource = new Umbraco.Forms.Core.Providers.Prevalues.UmbracoPrevaluesReadOnly();

                prevalueSource.DataTypeId = "1234";

                return prevalueSource;

            }

        }

    }

Then on your form field set  PrevalueSource = "From umbraco" (so use prevalue source name)

Hi Tim,

Thanks for that - this works a treat. Is there a way though that i can have the value of the source as the dropdown option value (its just using the string)?
(does that make sense??! - see images below)

I also was wondering if its possible to have a form that you can edit another users profile (i.e. http://www.nibble.be/?p=205 - Profile form but somehow have the default value come from a member you have loaded in from a querystring or something.)

Sorry for all the questions!! I'm really enjoying the code first stuff though! :)

Many thanks

K

Well I guess you could just update the view for that fieldtype to use the value instead of the text 

For the member edit, you can set defaults from querystring/session/cookie so maybe that could be usefull?

Ahhh! Yeah - i knew it would be something as easy as that (dropwdown) - perfect Tim.

Yeah that would work - (members) - do you have an example of this anywhere?

Thanks mate - really helpful! :)

Yeah just set the default value to:

Insert page value: [#propertyAlias]

Insert recursive page value: [$propertyAlias]

Insert cookie value or session: [%cookieValue]

Insert value from request collection: [@requestKey]

So would look like

 [Field("Profile", FormFieldsets.Details,

           Mandatory = true,

            DefaultValue = " [@requestKey]")]

        public string Name { get; set; }

Thats great Tim - thanks a lot. Will check that out tonight and let you know how I get on.

Cheers,

Kenny

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