Accessing Boolean document field in k#

Nathan Tritt asked on August 11, 2014 17:53

I am having some trouble with some K# syntax within a transformation.

I have a document type that has a Boolean check box field. I want to be able to use this field in a conditional statement to decide a class name.

currently I have:

the part that is seeming to not work is the area between {% %}. it is rendering out in the DOM as:

I would like the

tag to render as either

any help on this would be appreciated.

thanks in advance.

document fi k#

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Nathan Tritt answered on August 11, 2014 17:54

the li tags should render with a class name of either "isFeatured" or ""

sorry the editor took my tags and markup.

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Brenden Kehren answered on August 11, 2014 18:46

Are you using ASCX transformation or some other text type of transformation? If its not ASCX, then Eval("ColumnName") will not work. I believe you have to use GetValue("ColumnName").ToBool() for the text transformations although I don't use them very often if at all.

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Jim Spillane answered on August 11, 2014 18:51

As Brenden said no Eval() needed in Text/XML. You can do the test on a bool like:

{%isFeatured == true ? "isFeatured" : ""%}

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Nathan Tritt answered on August 11, 2014 19:18

I was using the ASCX.

what would be the best practice to do this type of conditional operation?

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Nathan Tritt answered on August 11, 2014 19:36

I found a reference guide that showed me methods that could be used. here is the link.

I also switched my code to <li class="<%# IfTrue(Eval("isFeatured"), "featured")%>"> this worked for me

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