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  • Mike Poole 53 posts 165 karma points
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 14:53
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    Inherit values on child document type

    Templates, (partial) views and macros
    Umbraco 7

    I have a document type (no template) called Document Category. I use this to allow users to create categories,. It has one property Category Label (TextString)

    I then have another document type (no template) called Document Item which is a child of Document Category.

    When users create Document Item content from Document Library, I want the Category Label to be pre populated based on the parent document they are creating from

    Is this possible? All I get is an empty textstrign box and I cannot remove the property in the DocumentType as it says

    " Inherited from Document Category"

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  • Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 14:56
    Alex Skrypnyk
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    Hi Mike

    If you are using Umbraco version 7.7+ - then Content Templates what you need, read more how to use it - http://www.markwemekamp.com/blog/umbraco/how-to-use-content-templates-in-umbraco/

    Thanks

    Alex

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  • Mike Poole 53 posts 165 karma points
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 15:05
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    Thanks Alex, so nothing pre 7.7?

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  • Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 15:10
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    Mike, what version are you using?

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  • Mike Poole 53 posts 165 karma points
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 15:12
    Mike Poole
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    We are on 7.5.9

    There will be upgrades in the future but I need to come up with a solution based on this version (not a show-stopper but would look really nice if the content inherited)

    OR, failing that, I could just remove the inherited field from the child document type and get the value I want when I walk the nodes from the parent

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  • Alex Skrypnyk 6132 posts 23951 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib
    Oct 13, 2017 @ 15:07
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    no

    You can create an event on node creation populate the field with custom code using contentService:

    https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/events/contentservice-events

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