I am working on a custom property editor which extends the CheckboxList to enable a default value to be specified but I can't for some reason get it to load my view and fear I have been looking at it that long I am missing the obvious. I have the following defined on my class that inherits from

DataEditor

[DataEditor(
    "RadioButtonListWithDefault",
    EditorType.PropertyValue,
    "RadioButtonList with default selection",
    "~/App_Plugins/MyProject/PropertyEditors/RadioButtonListWithDefault/RadioButtonListWithDefault.html",
    Group = Constants.PropertyEditors.Groups.Lists,
    ValueType = ValueTypes.Text)]

I am overriding

CreateConfigurationEditor

as follows: protected override IConfigurationEditor CreateConfigurationEditor() => new RadioButtonListWithDefaultConfigurationEditor(_ioHelper, _editorConfigurationParser); My ConfigurationEditor inherits

ConfigurationEditor<RadioButtonListWithDefaultConfiguration>

And my Configuration class looks like this:

public class RadioButtonListWithDefaultConfiguration : ValueListConfiguration
{
    [ConfigurationField("default", "Default Value", "dropdown", Description = "Select the default value from the list")]
    public string Default { get; set; }
}

The view file exists in the specified location but is never loaded. I need it to be loaded so that I can set the default value in the UI. What am I missing?

I’m gonna ask some basic questions 1. Does it build ? 2. When you load the listing of data types , does the JavaScript error 3. Does the property show in the list ? 4. Any errors.. 5 converters??

Hey @Ravi I'm gonna answer your basic questions 😉 1. Yes 2. No (but quite likely as the HTML file is not loading there is no call to anything in the controller) 3. Yes, the property renders with the standard checkbox list editor but missing the dropdown for the default selector. If I change the view from

dropdown

to

textstring

it renders fine. But, that is to be expected since I think the reason the dropdown is not showing is that is has no data and it has no data because the view is not loaded. 4. No 5. No, not yet https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1247540478442737744/1247859686947164280/image.png?ex=66618f65&is=66603de5&hm=69e735b45341f4b4953584c735a2393d056a4c262c02e9d493733ab12920127a&

okay .. that s why i like to ask the simple questions.. 8- 9 times out of ten you know or can see the answer, your brain is not firing , so by forcing you to walk back through and validate yourself..

Thanks @Ravi I'd still like to know, if/how I might be able to use the existing Umbraco view for dropdown and push the items from

config.Items

collection into it. So far I've been unsuccessful. Wherever possible I'd prefer not to be reinventing the wheel.

So you woyld have to figure out a way to identify if its the default or your specialised one , and then when its building it add you custom code to populate it Its been a long time since i have done this .. however you may want to look at Contentment which is a package which allows a lot of this kind of thing.. https://our.umbraco.com/packages/backoffice-extensions/contentment/ its alos open source so you can have a look atnd see whats been done

Thanks @Ravi Doing them separate I am sure is easier but will take a look at Contentment.