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Using TreeDropdownField() in widget admin editor.


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DubbeleJ

Community Member, 9 Posts

13 September 2012 at 5:36am

Edited: 13/09/2012 5:47am

Hello,

I have created a widget, in which I want to bind a PageID/SiteTreeID to the widget to load data. In order to select the page ID my first solution was to use the TreeDropdownField(). I have the following code to generate my admin for the widget:

	public function getCMSFields() {
		return new FieldList(
			new TextField("WidgetTitle", "WidgetTitel"),
			new TreeDropdownField("PageID", "Kies pagina voor submenu", "SiteTree")
		);
	}

However when I use this, I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function FormAction() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\4happyfeet.nl\framework\forms\FormField.php on line 139

Do I need some additional things in my Widget in order to make this work, like dependencies in Javascript and such?

Any ideas regarding this would be appreciated.

Regards,
Jan Jaap

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Matty Balaam

Community Member, 74 Posts

31 October 2012 at 7:08am

Edited: 02/11/2012 1:50am

Possibly too late, but there are several fields missing in the SS3 Widgets module, and it seems TreeDropDownField is one.

To get around this I used a regular DropdownField, you only get a flat list with no nesting of sub menus however:

new DropdownField("PageLinkID", "Page to link to", SiteTree::get()->map())

Unfortunately, I then had another problem, I couldn't get the link into my widget template. I would usually use <a href="$PageLinkID.Link" > but that doesn't seem to work in a widget

After much hacking around I managed to create a function in a WidgetController class

class PageLinkWidget_Controller extends Widget_Controller { 
	
		public function SiteTreeLink($pageID){
			$page = SiteTree::get()->byID($pageID)->Link();
			if ($page) return $page;
		}		
}

Then inside the template I used: <a href ="$SiteTreeLink($PageLinkID)">

If there's a simpler way I'm all ears, but it works.