Access field values

Access file drop area fields

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You can use the Sitecore.Data.Fields.FileDropAreaField class to access the value in a field of type File Drop Area (FDA). The Sitecore.Data.Fields.FileDropAreaField.GetMediaItems method returns the media items associated with the FDA field.

You can implement a Web control based on the following example that generates an unordered list of links to the media items associated with an FDA field.

namespace Sitecore.Sharedsource.Web.UI.WebControls
{

    using System;

    public class FDALinks : Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControl
    {

        public string FieldName
        {
            get; set;
        }

        protected override void DoRender(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter output)
        {

            if (this.FieldName == null || Sitecore.Context.Item == null || output == null)
            {
                return;
            }

            Sitecore.Data.Fields.FileDropAreaField fdaField = Sitecore.Context.Item.Field[this.FieldName];

            if (fdaField == null) {
                return;
            }

            Sitecore.Collections.ItemList mediaItems = fdaField.GetMediaItems();

            if (mediaItems.Count < 1) {
                return;
            }

            output.Write("<ul>");

            foreach (Sitecore.Data.Items.Item mediaItem in mediaItems)
            {
                string mediaUrl = Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/', Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(mediaItem));

                string markup = String.Format(@"<li><a href=""{0}"">{1}</a>", mediaUrl,mediaItem.Name);

                output.Write(markup);
            }

            output.Write("</ul>");
        }
    }
}

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