How to create forms in DD4T MVC and SDL Tridion using Schema and components
Here we have used only two
different schema to create forms.
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Form field Schema: - Is used to create the controls
such as text box, radio button etc.
o
Here i have field type ,field name and label
text
o
You can create field Type as category,Keywords to list down all the possible
controls
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Form Builder Schema: - Is used to give the
title, Description and here we also linked all our components which was created
using Schema Form Field.
o
In This component we will linked all are component
created using Form Field Schema which contains all the different types of fields
type Components “First Name, Last Name”.
o Insert this component as component presentation in your page .
o Insert this component as component presentation in your page .
In your DD4T application you can using following sample code lines to render the controls
@if (FormBuilder.Fields.ContainsKey("title"))
{
@FormBuilder.Fields["title"].Value
}
@if (FormBuilder.Fields.ContainsKey("description"))
{
@FormBuilder.Fields["description"].Value
}
First Read EmbeddedValues ["sections"] and then LinkedComponentValues
@foreach (var fieldComp in FormBuilder.Fields["fields"].LinkedComponentValues)
{
var fieldType = fieldComp.Fields.ContainsKey("type") ? fieldComp.Fields["type"].Keywords[0].Key : string.Empty;
//In our case it’s a text field
var fieldName = fieldComp.Fields.ContainsKey("name") ? fieldComp.Fields["name"].Value : string.Empty;
var fieldValue =
(fieldComp.Fields.ContainsKey("label") && fieldComp.Fields["label"].EmbeddedValues[0].ContainsKey("text")) ? fieldComp.Fields["label"].EmbeddedValues[0][" text"].Values[0] : string.Empty;
<label
for=\"{0}\">{1}</label> .FormatArgs(fieldname,fieldname)
//We are using Switch cases to check the field Type and generate
control accordingly
switch (fieldType)
{
case "text":
<input type="text" name="@fieldName" />
Break;
case "button":
<button type="button">@fieldValue</button>
}
