Enum multiple choice changes to single choice on update

Sunday 05 August 2007 5:08:30 pm

I am new to EZ Publish and have been working with it for a few weeks.

I created a new user class for our members. In the registration form I wanted them to be able to make multiple choices for certain attributes. Since I wanted the choices displayed as checkboxes it seemed that <i>enum</i> was the sole datatype that could be used.

Using EZ Selection with multiple choice would both display as an ugly box, and also complicating for users needing to ctrl + click to make selections.

Then I found out that enum was deprecated. But it still seemed to work out fine using 3.9 so I didn't care. Today I was just about to csv-import all my users, when I realized that all of a sudden the registration form had radio buttons rather than check boxes?

I soon realized that when I edit my class the box I ticked for 'multiple choice' is suddenly unmarked, then saving it results in the obvious change on the site.

Also, the test users that I had added and choosing multiple values for these questions using enum did no longer have multiple data stored for them...

Luckily enough I hadn't imported the users yet and not put the site live.

A word of wisdom, don't use enum. I am now looking into other solutions to use eZSelection but displaying checkboxes instead. This post looks promising - http://ez.no/community/forum/developer/how_to_create_multi_checkbox_like_multi_option/re_how_to_create_multi_checkbox_like_multi_opt__7

Jesper

Tuesday 07 August 2007 3:20:06 am

Hi Heath,

Many thanks for your input.

I did go with the solution mentioned in my previous post (custom made data types is too complicated, at least for me).

Unfortunately I ran into new problems. Mostly because in my templates I can't check if tha attribute has a value or not.

I have my own user class, with about 20 attributes. Most of them are text line, so on various pages I use something like

Location:
{if $:item.object.data_map.city.has_content}
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$:item.object.data_map.city},
{/if}

Previously for enum-datatype I used

<p><strong>{'Organisation - geographic outreach'|i18n('design/standard/user/register')}:</strong><br />
	{foreach $user.contentobject.data_map.organisationoutreach.content.enumobject_list as $element}  
	{$element.enumelement}<br />
	{/foreach}</p>

.. which worked well.

But changing to the new data type i CAN'T retrieve the value.

A simple 'object.has.content' like above only returns <i>ezcontentclassattribute</i>. i tried with '$myobject(attribute(show)' in numerous variations but can't figure out how to do it from the result...

Any ideas,

Jesper

Thursday 09 August 2007 12:02:23 pm

Hi again,

Thanks for the links.

I ended up doing a quite simple approach by nesting two foreach-loops.

{foreach $user.contentobject.data_map.selection_array.class_content.options as $element}
          {foreach $user.contentobject.data_map.selection_array.content as $childelement}  
                    {if eq($element.id, $childelement)}
	            {$element.name}<br />
	    {/if}
         {/foreach}
{/foreach}

The first foreach gave me:

Attribute Type Value
0 array Array(2)
>id string 0
>name string 'Global'
1 array Array(2)
>id string 1
>name string 'Africa (Sub-Sahara)'
..etc

And the second one..

Attribute Type Value
0 string 1
1 string 5
2 string 7

So by nesting the foreach:es I managed to map them together.

Like the value 1 for the second foreach would correspond to the name 'Africa (Sub-Sahara)' and only write out the selected option values (1, 5 and 7).

It might not be the cleanest approach but it worked fine for me.

/Jesper