Hey everyone new to DNN and I'm attempting to convert some of my controls to DNN.

I read through all the documentation and I can't seem to find why my ListBox and CheckBoxList ListItem's are not localizing correctly in DNN4. The DropDownList and RadioButtonList localize correctly but not the ListBox and CheckBoxList.

I can't find anything in the forums through searching and nothing directly references to it in any of the documentation. Alas even my google search yeild no findings so it must be something easy that I am just doing incorrectly.

<asp:ListBox ID="ListBox1" runat="server" Rows="1">
<asp:ListItem resourcekey="TestResults" Value="1">Text</asp:ListItem> (Doesn't Work)
</asp:ListBox>

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server">
 <asp:ListItem resourcekey="TestResults" Value="1">Text</asp:ListItem> (Works)
</asp:DropDownList>

 <data name="TestResults.Text">
  <value>Localized Text</value>
 </data>

Any help and direction would be appreciated

-Josh

 

It appears that the ProcessControl method of the DotNetNuke.Framework.PageBase which is where localization of controls on the page occurs specifically targets DropDownList and RadioButtonList as it iterates through their collection of ListItem objects but does not provide similar processing for other types of list controls such as ListBox and CheckBoxList.  The ProcessControl method also tries to localize any child controls, but since the ListItem class derives from System.Object rather than from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl, this fails also.

I did not follow the code through completely and may be missing something, but based on a quick look suggest that you add this to Gemini as either a bug or feature request. In the meantime, you would have to provide your own localization by iterating through each ListItem of your ListBox or CheckBoxList and using the DotNetNuke.Services.Localization.Localization.GetString method to obtain the localized strings. When I've used ListBox and CheckBoxList controls, I've always pulled the values from the database so had not run into this problem before.

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please log this as enhancement request into the public issue tracker at support.dotnetnuke.com. Thank you.

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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