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DependentDropdownField


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Drumstick

Community Member, 20 Posts

28 July 2013 at 9:13am

Hi

Does someone understand how to use correct the DependentDropdownField?

Like this it doesn't work...

DropdownField::create('ProductCategoryItem','ProductCategoryItem',$map1),

DependentDropdownField::create('ProductCategoryItem', 'ProductSubcategoryItem',
$map1,
$map2[1]
),

Thanks for a tip.

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Andre

Community Member, 146 Posts

21 March 2014 at 11:47am

Hi there, I have the same question.

The Modules Description looks promising, but I have no Idea how to have two collections, where one is depending on the other (typical has_many relation) and map this to a dropdown and dependentdropdown field.

Anyone here who got that ever to run?

kind regards

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innomedia

Community Member, 1 Post

17 April 2014 at 10:37pm

Hi guys,

i managed to get this thing working. All you need to do is:
- set the Dependant field wirth ->setDepends()
- load the values in the dependant field via callback

Here is how it worked for me:
getCMSFields(){
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.RelatedArticles', $blogModuleField = DropdownField::create('BlogModule', 'Blog Module', BlogHolder::get()->sort('Title', 'ASC')->map('ID', 'Title')));
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.RelatedArticles', $articleField = DependentDropdownField::create('LinkedArticleID', 'Related Blog Article', array('News', 'DropdownBlogArticles'))->setEmptyString('(No Article Selected)'));
$articleField->setDepends($blogModuleField);
}

public static function DropdownBlogArticles($parent_ = null){
if($parent_){
return BlogEntry::get()->filter('ParentID', $parent_)->sort('Date', 'DESC')->limit(50)->map('ID', 'Title')->toArray();
} else {
return BlogEntry::get()->sort('Date', 'DESC')->limit(50)->map('ID', 'Title')->toArray();
}
}