Get custom control field caption

Brittany Sanford asked on August 27, 2020 18:03

Hi!

Is there a way to access field properties like the Field Caption from the custom control code? I do not have a static name to put in, because the fields will not always be named the same thing, and this is for multiple forms.

Thanks!

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Dmitry Bastron answered on August 28, 2020 10:31

Hi Brittany,

Are you talking about MVC Form Builder custom form controls or custom Portal Engine Form Controls? What version of Kentico do you use and is it Portal Engine or MVC?

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Brittany Sanford answered on August 28, 2020 19:08

Hi Dmitry,

I'm running v11.0.17 Portal Engine. What I'm trying to do is set a custom aria-label field of my control to the "field caption" of the field it's being used on in the form. I have everything put in for the aria-label property of my custom control and the code to set up the aria-label attribute, but can't figure out how to pull in the field caption value.

Thanks for your help, Brittany

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Dmitry Bastron answered on August 30, 2020 00:13

Dear Brittany, inside your form control code (inherited from FormEngineUserControl) you can access it like this:

var caption = this.FieldInfo.Caption;

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