Suvarna,

Can be done quite easily using xslt (and macro)

<xsl:variable name="startNode" select="-1" />
<select>
<option value="">--Select category--</option>
<xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)//node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'Category']">
<option value="{@id}"><xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"></option>
</select>

will create a dropdown list of categories from the nodes (starting from a $startNode - set to -1 here = top level node). All that needs to be done now is display all questions upon selectnig a category from the dropdown.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Hi Dirk, thanks for the quick reply. I alredy did the same thing for populating dropdown but how can i handle postback for this i mean once i select a category how will i show the questions of that category. In the content tree there will be many content node which will have a property called question for each category.

Thanks,

Suvarna

If you're going to use xslt then your best bet would be to post back via javascript. Something like this: document.formName.submit()

Hi jannik, I am not clear about this point. can you please elaborate this point in more deep?

Thanks,

Suvarna

You can see this link the way i want to do for dropdown control

http://www.atagverwarming.nl/default.aspx?cp=faq

If I'm reading your question correctly you have a page with a dropdown box on it with some questions in it. When you select a question the answers should be shown.

Now there are a few way you can show the answers, either redirect to a page with the relevant answers when you select a question.

In the value attribute of the different options add the url to the answers page, and then just redirect to that page.

Another way is to submit to the same page with a query parameter containing the id of the question asked and then show the children of that node with xslt

You may also want to read -> http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/xslt/5110-Drop-down-filter-using-XSLT

Try somethig like this, it's not tested so errors might occur :)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
    <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
    xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets" xmlns:tagsLib="urn:tagsLib"
    exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets tagsLib ">

    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
    <xsl:variable name="category" select="umbraco.library:Request('ctrlCategory')" />
    <xsl:variable name="question" select="umbraco.library:Request('ctrlQuestion')" />

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <form name="myForm" action="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id)}" method="post">
            <div>
                <xsl:variable name="startNode" select="-1" />
                <select name="ctrlCategory" onchange="document.myForm.submit()">
                    <option value="">--Select category--</option>
                    <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($startNode)//node [@nodeTypeAlias = 'Category']">
                        <option value="{@id}">
                            <xsl:if test="$category = @id">
                                <xsl:attribute name="selected">
                                    <xsl:text>selected</xsl:text>
                                </xsl:attribute>
                            </xsl:if>
                            <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName" />
                        </option>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </select>
            </div>
            <xsl:if test="$category != ''">
                <div>
                    <xsl:call-template name="categoryTemplate">
                        <xsl:with-param name="category" select="$category" />
                    </xsl:call-template>

                    <xsl:if test="$question != ''">
                        <xsl:call-template name="questionTemplate">
                            <xsl:with-param name="question" select="$question" />
                        </xsl:call-template>
                    </xsl:if>
                </div>
            </xsl:if>
        </form>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="categoryTemplate">
        <xsl:param name="category" />
        <!-- Output the questions for the category -->
        <xsl:for-each select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($category)">
            <a>
                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($currentPage/@id)"/>
                    <xsl:text>?ctrlCategory=</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$category"/>
                    <xsl:text>&amp;question=</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:value-of select="./@name"/>
            </a>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="questionTemplate">
        <xsl:param name="question" />
        <!-- Output the answers for the selected question -->
        <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($question)/data [@alias='file']" />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hi Jannik, the solution you gave is really corrrect way of implementation and its working. but i already have one master page in which i took the form tag. and my funcionality in in content page in which i can not take the form tag. can you suggest some solution for this?

Thanks,

Suvarna

just use: document.forms[0].submit()

Hi,

Im confused about @id.can you help me?

touhid

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