Dynamically populating a dropdown menu in a create-wizard

[former_member632070]

I am currently trying to configure a create wizard for a custom item type. One of the fields (attribute) of the object is a string value. So in this case in the create wizard editor it renders a normal text box for input. This is expected as the data type is just a string.

BUT rather than providing a textbox for input is there anyway to replace the textbox with a drop down menu with option values? I would also need to populate the options for the menu dynamically (they will differ for each item).

This is for the PCM Backoffice (Hybris 6.7)

[Former Member]

One solution is to create your own editor, rendering either a textbox or a dropdown. Than you use this editor within wizard-configuration:

 ..
                         <wz:property qualifier="myField" type="java.lang.String" editor="de.mycompany.backoffice.editors.myeditor">
                             <wz:editor-parameter>
                                 <wz:name>attribute</wz:name>
                                 <wz:value>{parentObject.attribute}</wz:value>
                             </wz:editor-parameter>
                         </wz:property> ..

[former_member632070]

Thanks . I think this should work. I am currently facing issue trying to retrieve the value from within the editor class.

I am trying to get the value from usng a method I created (which returns the string value) using EditorContext as such:

 final Object productCode = context.getParameterAs(PARAM_CODE);
 if(productCode instanceof String)
 {
 return (String) productCode;
 }

But I am not getting the actual value of the parent object but rather the value defined in the configuration. {parentObject.code}

Maybe I need to reference it differently in configuration OR I'm obtaining it incorrectly in editor class?

[Former Member]

did you try it with <wz:value>{parentObject}</wz:value>?

Alternatively you can always pass the pk of the parentObject and instantiate the object with it. But this is a little bit ugly.