How to select values in a CheckBox programmatically

Carlos Betancourt

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Hi:

I am creating some pages programmatically and I am adding the value to each property like this:

myPage.Property["PropertyName"].Value = "Some text";

But when I want to do the same to a CheckBox Property linked to a Category I cannot get to add my values, or in this case, to select the right values:

For Example:

I have three checkboxes: US, Canada, Mexico.

How can I select one/more of these values when creating my page programmatically?

Thanks

#49040

Mar 01, 2011 18:27

Anders Hattestad

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Are you trying to save a page with categories selected, or are you trying to save a page with a checkbox selector?

The first one I think you can use the newPage.Category.ResolveCategoryNames("US,Canada,Mexico");

#49043

Mar 01, 2011 22:50

Carlos Betancourt

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Hej Anders:

My page type includes serveral fields, most of them text fields and one drop down list and two checkboxes (in the same property).

I can manage to add the data to the text fields and the drop down list but when it comes to check any of the checkboxes I cannot manage to select any of them (programmatically). Therefore my page is created with no problem but no checkbox is selected (if they were supposed to be selected).

Thanks.

#49056

Mar 02, 2011 16:38

Anders Hattestad

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If you have one propertiy that contains more than one value, I quess this property save the values as text. If you find out what text you should have, you can populate the property by using page.Property["abc"].ParseToSelf("this value is what I want to save")

#49061

Mar 02, 2011 20:43

Carlos Betancourt

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I tried it but it does not work. The CMS is using a custom CheckBoxList Property. This property generates a CheckBoxList from a CagetoryList. I have been checking and to select items programmatically you need to get an item of the checkboxlist and then change the change the value to true. The problem is that I cannot access the checkboxlist of my customProperty, or the only thing I can get is the Value.

#49103

Mar 03, 2011 19:35

Carlos Betancourt

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I solve the problem. The custom property stored the different values in a string with a special format, it was using a separator for each value. So I just had to build the string with the right format and problem solved. Thanks for the help anyways.

#49711

Mar 29, 2011 13:39