Make editor set text of c# enum

Erik Sundström

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Hi!

I have a C# enum:

public enum Priority
{
Low= 0,
Normal= 1,
High = 2
}

I would like an editor to be able to associate a text to the enum values like Low => "This is the lowest priority"

Is there a Epi Server property for this?

#162418

Oct 14, 2016 10:32

Yauheni Butsko

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This article should help you

http://joelabrahamsson.com/enum-properties-with-episerver/

#162421

Oct 14, 2016 11:36

Erik Sundström

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But doesn't that solution only allow the editor to choose which value that the property of the enum holds?

I.e the editor can choose if the property should be Low, Normal, High. It doesn't provide the editor with a way to set the text for Low, Normal, High?

#162422

Oct 14, 2016 12:25

Henrik Fransas

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Not built in but you might use two properties that depends on each others, like they do in this example (but you will have an ordinary enum dropdown and then a simple textbox property and then you build it togheter in your viewmodel)

http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Duong-Nguyen/Dates/2014/1/Country-Region-drop-down-lists-in-All-properties-mode/

#162423

Oct 14, 2016 12:57

Daniel Ovaska

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You could have a page type with 2 properties:

1. Dropdown with enum values

2. Text field with friendly name

Then add one page each per option (and language). Then build logic to get friendly name by searching these pages by value...

Add a container page to make it easy to create new options...(restricted to the pagetype above)

A bit old style but works :)

#162427

Oct 14, 2016 14:00

Erik Sundström

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Hi,

Thanks for the help. Just wanted to tell you what I ended up doing:

I used this library: https://github.com/joseftw/JOS.PropertyKeyValueList and modified the KeyValueAttribute like

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)]
    public class EnumNameValueAttribute : Attribute
    {
        public List<string> ReadOnlyKeys;

        public EnumNameValueAttribute()
        {
            this.ReadOnlyKeys = new List<string>();
        }

        public EnumNameValueAttribute(Type enumType)
        {
            this.ReadOnlyKeys = Enum.GetNames(enumType).ToList();
        }
    }

This enables the editor to set texts on the Enum.

#162800

Oct 17, 2016 8:50