Dropdowns and checkboxes

[geo782]

Hi,
Im using umbraco 7.13.2 and Vorto 1.7.1. and im trying to use vorto with dropdown and checkbox without success. textstring and textarea works fine. What i do is, go to developer > Datatypes, New datatype, Select vorto and then dropdown (or checkbox) and save. Then in document type, add the new field.
The problem is that I dont see any field to add the dropdown values. The same happens for checkbox.
If i add the original dropdown, there is a field "Add prevalue" to add, remove or sort values for the list.
Any idea why this happens?

[mattbrailsford]

@geo782 vorto wraps existing data types so you don't configured the wrapped data type from within vorto, you configure it via it's own data type prevalue editor. Vorto then reuses that data type definition. So, to set the dropdown prevalues, you do it on the dropdown data type that vorto is wrapping.

[geo782]

@mattbrailsford thanks for the reply. I created a dropdown and then selected it in new vorto.
Im now trying to display the dropdown value for each record, witout success. my code is :

 <ul>
                                        	@foreach(var item in selection){
                                        	    IPublishedContent sitem= (IPublishedContent)item;
                                        		<li>
                                        			<div class="accordion accordion-block">
                                                                    <div class="accord-btn"><h4>@sitem.GetVortoValue("articletitle")- @sitem.GetVortoValue("faqCategory")</h4></div>   
                                        		                    <div class="accord-content">
                                                                        <p>@sitem.GetVortoValue("body")</p>
                                                                    </div>   
                                                    </div>
                                        		</li>
                                        		
                                        	}
                                        </ul>

In the frontend i get the text System.String[] instead of faqCategory value.

[mattbrailsford]

@geo782 can you reformat you code snippet please? I can't understand what it's doing. Please see https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks for details on how.

[geo782]

@mattbrailsford sorry i eddited the code, now its ok.