Question

I created a Button on the ribbon “SelectCp”.

OnClick of the button I am launching a custom aspx page.

Custom aspx page is having a dropdown with the items like.

1. Select CP
2. Etc

Now, when user will select the option “Select CP”, I need to populate all the publication in a listitem on the aspx page. When user will select a publication, I need to populate all the component in another list.

Can anyone give an idea how to proceed?

ADDED

I am proceeding Like this, but its not giving the list of publication in the listbox on the aspx page.

protected void ddSelectOption_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //CommonTridionTools objCmnUnPub = new CommonTridionTools();
        CoreServiceSession client = new CoreServiceSession();
        SessionAwareCoreServiceClient csClient = client.GetClient();
        ReadOptions readoption = new ReadOptions();
        List<string> PublicationList = new List<string>();
        List<string> ComponentList = new List<string>();

        if (ddSelectOption.SelectedItem.Equals("Select CP"))
        {
            FolderData RootFolder =(FolderData)csClient.Read(tridionPageId, readoption);
            var filter = new OrganizationalItemItemsFilterData
            {
                Recursive = true,
                ItemTypes = new ItemType[] { ItemType.Publication,ItemType.Component, ItemType.ComponentTemplate },
            };
            XElement CompList = csClient.GetListXml(RootFolder.Id,filter);

            foreach (var comp in CompList.Elements())
            {
                PublicationData Publication =(PublicationData)csClient.Read(comp.Attribute("ID").Value, readoption);
                var MetadataXML = new XmlDocument();
                MetadataXML.LoadXml(Publication.Metadata);
                PublicationList.Add(Publication.Id)
                lbPublication.DataSource = PublicationList;

            }
        }

Answer 1

We have examples for such a Publication drop-down and other controls on the PowerTools 2011 open source project. See the Example Extension source for:

• markup
• script
• service code

Start by reviewing these, then share your code or start another question when you’re ready.

Note the nice volunteers for the project created a base class that does some of the work.