jcdcdev.Umbraco.ExtendedDropdownEditor

A custom dropdown property editor for Umbraco that supports dynamic data sources.

Quick Start

Install Package

dotnet add package jcdcdev.Umbraco.ExtendedDropdownEditor 

Create Data Type

• Go to the Settings section in the Umbraco backoffice
• Create a new Data Type using the Extended Dropdown editor.
• Select your data source (File Picker, File Path Override, or URL).
• Save the data type.

Now you are ready to use the data type in your content types!

Extending

File Picker

Select any file in the wwwroot or App_Plugins directory

Examples

• wwwroot/data.json
• App_Plugins/data.json

Warning

Please note that any files in these directories are publicly accessible via URL!

File Path Override

Specify a custom path to a file (relative to the root of the web project)

Examples

• /umbraco/Data/MyDataSource.json
• /usync/v15/DataSources/countries.json

Note

This allows you to configure a path that is not publicly accessible via URL

URL

Specify a URL that returns a JSON response

• Supports GET requests with optional query string parameters
• Supports local and external URLs
• Does not support authentication (yet 👀)

Examples

• /myapi/mydata?format=json
• https://array-3yn8gu6xn98t.runkit.sh/

Data Format

Currently, the data source must return an array of strings.

[
  "Item 1",
  "Item 2",
  "Item 3"
]

Note

In the future I plan to add JSONPath support to allow for more complex data structures 🤓

Contributing

Contributions to this package are most welcome! Please visit the Contributing page.

Acknowledgements (Thanks)

• LottePitcher - opinionated-package-starter
• jcdcdev - jcdcdev.Umbraco.PackageTemplate