LISE and custom field from smarty Topic is solved

[webform]

I'm trying to have a dropdown in a LISE Instance with categories from another LISE Instance, but i can't seem to figure out if it's possible with field type "Custom field from smarty"?

The help description says:

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{$opts = [1 => 'one', 2 => 'two']}
{html_options options=$opts selected=$sel}

And i tried to change that to:

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{cms_module module='LISEContacts' action='category' assign='opts'}
{html_options options=$opts selected=$sel}

with my category template looking like this:

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{strip}[null => '- None -',
{foreach from=$categories item=category name=cat}
{$category->category_id} => '{$category->name}'{if not $smarty.foreach.cat.last},{/if}
{/foreach}
]{/strip}

I do get an output in the dropdown, but it's all in one line surrounded with a div looking like this:

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<div class="lise-admin-wrapper">[null => '- None -',1 => 'Renewable',2 => 'Buildings',3 => 'Oil & Gas',4 => 'Infrastructure',5 => 'Industry',6 => 'PtX',7 => 'WTG']</div>

So i'm clearly doing something wrong or misunderstanding how to use "Custom field from smarty"?

[Jo Morg]

No, you are misunderstanding smarty...
So what you are doing is a text representation of an array, which is not the same as an array.
I would try this:

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{* LISE Categories *}
{$opts [''] =  '- None -'}
{foreach $categories as $category}
  {$opts[{$category->category_id}] =  {$category->name}
{/foreach}
{$opts = $opts scope = parent} {* this line may or may not be needed - test without it 1st *}

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{* LISE custom field from smarty *}
{cms_module module='LISEContacts' action='category'}
{html_options options=$opts selected=$sel}

You may have issues with scope but other than that it should work. The way I posted it is a variable containing an array that you are passing to html_options.

HTH

[webform]

Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction.

Intialy it didn't work because of a" too many shorthand attributes" error. But after searching some more on arrays i came up with a solutions thats working:

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{$cat_ids[] = null}
{$names[] = '- None -'}
{foreach $categories as $category}
{$cat_ids[] = $category->category_id}
{$names[] = $category->name}
{/foreach}
{$cat_ids = $cat_ids scope = parent}
{$names = $names scope = parent}

Scope was important for the next step.
And then in "Custom field from smarty":

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{cms_module module='LISEContacts' action='category'}
{html_options values=$cat_ids output=$names selected=$sel}

[Jo Morg]

Intialy it didn't work because of a" too many shorthand attributes" error.

Having posted it by memory I suddenly realized there were a few syntax errors but it should have worked with:

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{* LISE Categories *}
{$opts[''] =  '- None -'}
{foreach $categories as $category}
  {$opts[$category->category_id] =  $category->name}
{/foreach}

[webform]

Thanks! It's much shorter and sweeter than my take.

One thing though. The space results in a " too many shorthand attributes" error.:

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{$opts [''] =  '- None -'} change to {$opts[''] =  '- None -'}

[Jo Morg]

Ah! missed that one . fixed and thanks!

[webform]

For future references

LISE Instance Category Template:

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{* LISE Categories *}
{$opts[''] =  '- None -'}
{foreach $categories as $category}
  {$opts[$category->category_id] =  $category->name}
{/foreach}
{$opts = $opts scope = parent}

Other LISE Instance "Add Field Definition => Custom Field From Smarty":

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{cms_module module='LISEmyinstance' action='category'}
{html_options options=$opts selected=$sel}