I am fairly new to SharePoint development and as you may all know that it is very basic for one to know how to access fields in a choice column...
My problem:
I want to access the values of the Check Boxes from a Choice Column.
For Example:
I have a document library called Libe, this document library has a custom column with type Choice and has 4 checkboxes with the values:
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
How do I get the values like literally the text values of what is in the Check Box List: "Category 1", "Category 2" ... "Category 4".
Any ideas?
I can access the column fine and get the selected values, I just do not know how to get the values the user can choose from.
Answer
SPFieldMultiChoice Fld = (SPFieldMultiChoice)list.Fields["Column"];
List<string> fieldList = new List<string>();
foreach (string str in Fld.Choices)
{
fieldList.Add(str);
}
Above is the answer, I can't answer my own question until I have a 100 rep.
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://servername/"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList list = web.Lists["ListName"];
string values = list["yourColumn"] as string;
string[] choices = null;
if (values != null)
{
choices = values.Split(new string[] { ";#" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
}
}
}
You can try this code for getting choice field value from document library.
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So I was working on a DropDown list and it works, but it has many duplicate emails, I just want to see distinct emails... So I tried doing .Distinct() in the model class, but that still gave me duplicates..
Model Class:
public string One_Manager_Email{ get; set; }
public List<Hello> getManagers()
{
var que = (from wr in db.View
select new Hello
{
O_Manager_Email= wr.One_Manager_Email
}).Distinct().ToList();
return que;
}
Controller Class: (This is probably where the problem is happening)
public ActionResult Index()
{
test = new Hello();
ViewBag.Managers = new SelectList(test.getManagers(), "", "O_Manager_Email");
return View(test.getStuff());
}
View Class:
<div>
#Html.DropDownList("Managers", ViewBag.Managers as SelectList)
</div>
Any help would be great, thank you!
You need to group your objects by the property you want them to be distinct by, and then select the first element of the grouping.
public List<Hello> getManagers()
{
var que = (from wr in db.View
select new Hello
{
O_Manager_Email= wr.One_Manager_Email
})
.GroupBy(g => g.O_Manager_Email) //group by property
.Select(g => g.First()) //take first element from every grouping
.ToList();
return que;
}
For some more details, you can see this post that has more details on grouping and distinct: LINQ's Distinct() on a particular property
Distinct won't work on objects like that, as objects are always distinct, but you can try using group by in your query, something along these lines:
var que = (from wr in db.View
group new {wr.One_Manager_Email}
by new {wr.One_Manager_Email} into grouped
select new Hello
{
O_Manager_Email= grouped.Key.One_Manager_Email
}).ToList();
return que;
If you just need email address, you can select just string instead of selecting Hello object. If you select Hello object and try to distinct you like that way, you obviously get duplicated items. Because every object is already unique.
I believe you have already answer. GroupBy might solve your problem. However unless you really need GroupBy, don't use GroupBy! It's really expensive operation.
In your case, you should use DistinctBy.
var distinctList = list.DistinctBy(x => x.Prop).ToList();
On your code:
var que = (from wr in db.View
select new Hello
{
O_Manager_Email = wr.One_Manager_Email
}).DistinctBy(x=>x.O_Manager_Email).ToList();
Oh, in terms of DistinctBy usage, you should import namespace of Microsoft.Ajax.Utilities.
using Microsoft.Ajax.Utilities;
I'm quite new to linq, so please bear with me.
I'm working on a asp.net webpage and I want to add a "search function" (textbox where user inputs name or surname or both or just parts of it and gets back all related information). I have two tables ("Person" and "Application") and I want to display some columns from Person (name and surname) and some from Application (score, position,...). I know how I could do it using sql, but I want to learn more about linq and thus I want to do it using linq.
For now I got two main ideas:
1.)
var person = dataContext.GetTable<Person>();
var application = dataContext.GetTable<Application>();
var p1 = from p in Person
where(p.Name.Contains(tokens[0]) || p.Surname.Contains(tokens[1]))
select new {Id = p.Id, Name = p.Name, Surname = p.Surname}; //or maybe without this line
//I don't know how to do the following properly
var result = from a in Application
where a.FK_Application.Equals(index) //just to get the "right" type of application
//this is not right, but I don't know how to do it better
join p1
on p1.Id == a.FK_Person
2.) The other idea is just to go through "Application" and instead of "join p1 ..." to use
var result = from a in Application
where a.FK_Application.Equals(index) //just to get the "right" type of application
join p from Person
on p.Id == a.FK_Person
where p.Name.Contains(tokens[0]) || p.Surname.Contains(tokens[1])
I think that first idea is better for queries without the first "where" condition, which I also intended to use. Regardless of what is better (faster), I still don't know how to do it using linq. Also in the end I wanted to display / select just some parts (columns) of the result (joined tables + filtering conditions).
I really want to know how to do such things using linq as I'll be dealing also with some similar problems with local data, where I can use only linq.
Could somebody please explain me how to do it, I spent days trying to figure it out and searching on the Internet for answers.
var result = from a in dataContext.Applications
join p in dataContext.Persons
on p.Id equals a.FK_Person
where (p.Name.Contains("blah") || p.Surname.Contains("foo")) && a.FK_Application == index
select new { Id = p.Id, Name = p.Name, Surname = p.Surname, a.Score, a.Position };
Well as Odrahn pointed out, this will give you flat results, with possibly many rows for a single person, since a person could join on multiple applications that all have the same FK. Here's a way to search all the right people, and then add on the relevant application to the results:
var p1 = from p in dataContext.Persons
where(p.Name.Contains(tokens[0]) || p.Surname.Contains(tokens[1]))
select new {
Id = p.Id, Name = p.Name, Surname = p.Surname,
BestApplication = dataContext.Applications.FirstOrDefault(a => a.FK_Application == index /* && ???? */);
};
Sorry - it looks like this second query will result in a roundtrip per person, so it clearly won't be scalable. I assumed L2S would handle it better.
In order to answer this properly, I need to know if Application and Person are directly related (i.e. does Person have many Applications)? From reading your post, I'm assuming that they are because Application seems to have a foreign key to person.
If so, then you could create a custom PersonModel which will be populated by the fields you need from the different entities like this:
class PersonModel
{
string Name { get; set; }
string Surname { get; set; }
List<int> Scores { get; set; }
List<int> Positions { get; set; }
}
Then to populate it, you'd do the following:
// Select the correct person based on Name and Surname inputs
var person = dataContext.Persons.Where(p => p.Name.Contains("firstname") || p.Name.Contains("surname")).FirstOrDefault();
// Get the first person we find (note, there may be many - do you need to account for this?)
if (person != null)
{
var scores = new List<int>();
var positions = new List<int>();
scores.AddRange(person.Applications.Select(i => i.Score);
positions.AddRange(person.Applications.Select(i => i.Position);
var personModel = new PersonModel
{
Name = person.Name,
Surname = person.Surname,
Scores = scores,
Positions = positions
};
}
Because of your relationship between Person and Application, where a person can have many applications, I've had to account for the possibility of there being many scores and positions (hence the List).
Also note that I've used lambda expressions instead of plain linqToSql for simple selecting so that you can visualise easily what's going on.
I have a table that contains a list of EquipmentIDs and another table that has maintenance records.
When the user edits a maintenance record I want there to be a drop down list of all of the equipment IDs from the table.
The dropdown list populates, and it populates with the correct amount of entries, however they all say System.Web.MVC.SelectListItem instead of the value of the ID.
Here is the code that generates the list:
public ActionResult Edit(int id)
{
MaintPerformed maintPerformed = maintPerformedRepository.GetMaintPerformed(id);
IList<EquipmentID> IDs = equipmentIDRepository.GetEquipmentIDAsList();
IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectEquipList =
from c in IDs
select new SelectListItem
{
//Selected = (c.EquipID == maintPerformed.EquipID),
Text = c.EquipID,
Value = c.Sort.ToString()
};
ViewData["EquipIDs"] = new SelectList(selectEquipList, maintPerformed.ID);
return View(maintPerformed);
}
Here is the entry in the .aspx page for the Dropdown list:
%: Html.DropDownList("EquipIDs") %>
Here is how I am generating the list from the table:
public List<EquipmentID> GetEquipmentIDAsList()
{
return db.EquipmentIDs.ToList();
}
It appears that everything is working correctly with the exception of assigning the text to be displayed in the drop down box.
What am I missing or not thinking correctly about?
SelectList and SelectListItem are actually mutually exclusive. You should be using one or the other. Etiher pass the constructor of SelectList your raw data (IDs) or don't use SelectList at all and just make ViewData["EquipIDs"] your enumerable of SelectListItem. If you go with the latter approach, you will have to tweak your code so that you are setting the selected item in the constructor of SelectListItem (as you had done, but commented out).
Either:
ViewData["EquipIDs"] = new SelectList(IDs, maintPerformed.ID, "EquipID", "Sort");
Or:
IEnumerable<SelectListItem> selectEquipList =
from c in IDs
select new SelectListItem
{
Selected = c.EquipID == maintPerformed.EquipID,
Text = c.EquipID,
Value = c.Sort.ToString()
};
ViewData["EquipIDs"] = selectEquipList;
My problem is pretty simple. Lets say I have a dropdown with users.
in the database i have 3 fields for my user table:
user_id
user_name
user_firstname
in my MVC app i want to link those users to projects. so thats why i want the dropdown.
now, i want to have a selectlist, with the ID as the value, and the firstname AND lastname to be the 'text'
SelectList sl = new SelectList(users, "user_id", "user_name");
now how do i get the first name also in the text? this should be fairly easy, but seems it isnt...
Use LINQ to transform your list of users into a list of SelectListItem.
var selectOptions =
from u in yourUserQuery
select new SelectListItem {
Value = u.user_id,
Text = u.user_firstname + " " + u. user_name
};
You can then convert that to a SelectList however you see fit. I personally like to define a .ToSelectList() extension method for IEnumerable<SelectListItem>, but to each his own.
You need to build a list from your database in the format you need. Here is what I did after my database read into a DataTable,
IList<UsrInfo> MyResultList = new List<UsrInfo>();
foreach (DataRow mydataRow in myDataTable.Rows)
{
MyResultList.Add(new UsrInfo()
{
Usr_CD = mydataRow["USR_NR"].ToString().Trim(),
Usr_NA = mydataRow["USR_NA_LAST"].ToString().Trim() + " , " +
mydataRow["USR_NA_FIRST"].ToString().Trim()
});
}
return new SelectList(MyResultList, "Usr_CD", "Usr_NA");
I'm trying to do something similar to this post where I don't pull back all columns from a particular entity, however my framework makes use of inheritence and I lose scope of the entity type after it's been cast to an anonymous type.
The structure of my Entity Framework has a base entity called Action. From here I've created two inherited entities called Event and Activity. I want to pull back the last X Actions and pass them to my strongly typed view which accepts an Action and from there determines if its an Activity or Event and renders the correct partial view.
if(Model.GetType() == typeof(Event))
{
//render Event view
}
else if(Model.GetType() == typeof(Activity))
{
//render Activity view
}
I can pull the last 10 as an anonymous type and then cast:
var result = from a in new DataContext().Actions
where a.UserId == someGuidValue
select new { a.CreatedOn, a.Summary };
List<Action> list = result.AsEnumerable()
.Select(o => new Action {
CreatedOn = o.CreatedOn,
Summary = o.Summary
}).ToList();
However, once I pass the new List of Actions to my strongly typed view it loses scope of whether it's an Activity or an Event since it's been cast as an Action. My question is, without exposing the discriminator column, is there any way to cast each item to the proper type or am I going about this the wrong way?
A bit kludgy, but will work:
var result = from a in new DataContext().Actions
where a.UserId == someGuidValue
let IsEvent = a as Event != null
select new { a.CreatedOn, IsEvent, a.Summary };
List<Action> list = result.AsEnumerable()
.Select(o => o.IsEvent ?
(Action) new Event {
CreatedOn = o.CreatedOn,
Summary = o.Summary
}
: (Action) new Activity {
CreatedOn = o.CreatedOn,
Summary = o.Summary
}
}).ToList();
Example with type-specific columns, presuming that e.EventSpecific is of a nullable type.
var result = from a in new DataContext().Actions
where a.UserId == someGuidValue
let ev = a as Event
let IsEvent = ev != null
select new { a.CreatedOn, IsEvent, a.Summary, ev.EventSpecific };
List<Action> list = result.AsEnumerable()
.Select(o => o.IsEvent ?
(Action) new Event {
CreatedOn = o.CreatedOn,
Summary = o.Summary,
EventSpecific = o.EventSpecific
}
: (Action) new Activity {
CreatedOn = o.CreatedOn,
Summary = o.Summary,
EventSpecific = o.EventSpecific // will be null, but using o.EventSpecific saves casting
}
}).ToList();
If o.EventSpecific is of a non-nullable type, then you must convert it to a nullable type in the L2E query.
You are probably on the wrong way. At first I would assume that Action should be an abstract class and you should not be able to create instances of it at all. If you then only fetch a subset of the properties and the subset does no longer allow to discriminate between events and activities, it is probably the wrong way to try making events and activities out of them.
So it actually seems not to be a technical problem - it should be quite easy to include some discrimination information in the anonymous type - but a design problem. I suggest to rethink if it is required to discriminate the query result and if so if it is really a good idea to discriminate the result in absence of an discriminator.