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9/2/2008 5:15 AM
 
tango

Joined: 8/15/2006
Posts: 405

Is it possible to turn an attribute into a dropdown in add new item

I have an attribute called location with a mile of possibilities.

Thanks
 
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9/2/2008 7:46 AM
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Steve Fabian


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Joined: 3/4/2003
Posts: 2111

No, for attributes on the upload form, you can elect to use Checkboxes (select many) or Radio buttons (select one) but you can't use a drop down list. You can tell it to use multiple columns though if that will help

Edit the form.xml file.

If you add a tag named ATTRIBUTES it will be applies to all attributes on your form. If you add a tag for ATTRIBUTE:tokenname then it will only apply to that particular attribute (note: tokenname is case sensitive),

Example: to make all attributes on the forms use Radio buttons with 2 columns

  <Object>
  <Token>[ATTRIBUTES]</Token>
  <Settings>
   <Setting>
    <Name>Select</Name>
    <Value>SINGLE</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatColumns</Name>
    <Value>2</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatDirection</Name>
    <Value>Horizontal</Value>
   </Setting>
  </Settings>
 </Object>

Another example: to use 3 columns of checkboxes for the attribute named 'location'

  <Object>
  <Token>[ATTRIBUTE:location]</Token>
  <Settings>
   <Setting>
    <Name>Select</Name>
    <Value>MULTIPLE</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatColumns</Name>
    <Value>3</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatDirection</Name>
    <Value>Horizontal</Value>
   </Setting>
  </Settings>
 </Object>


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9/2/2008 8:24 AM
 
tango

Joined: 8/15/2006
Posts: 405

awesome!! thats great

i cant seem to get it to work for CATEGORIES though

i did remove the word attribute

<Object>
  <Token>[CATEGORIES]</Token>
  <Settings>
   <Setting>
    <Name>Select</Name>
    <Value>MULTIPLE</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatColumns</Name>
    <Value>3</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
    <Name>RepeatDirection</Name>
    <Value>Horizontal</Value>
   </Setting>
  </Settings>
 </Object>

 

ps how do you put the code in a yellow box :)

 
 
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9/2/2008 9:58 AM
 
Steve Fabian


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Sorry, the tags are case-sensitive and for some unknown reason the Categories token is not all upper case.

So your example would work if it looked like 

<Token>[Categories]</Token>

Here's cool thing about categories, since they support sub-categories, you have a third option on how to display them

SINGLE: Radio Buttons
MULTIPLE: Checkboxes
TREE: A DNN Tree Control

:)

Yellow boxes: see this thread
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/118/threadid/227794/scope/posts/Default.aspx



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9/9/2008 8:49 AM
 
Dan Barua

Joined: 3/11/2008
Posts: 9

^

Awesome. Is there any way to display the categories as a tree in, say, the header or the dashboard?
 
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