How to set the intial value in dropdownbyindex?

Question

Hi All,
I have a small problem for initializing the dropdownbyindex value.
I have created Dropdownbyindex and map the texts value from context value attribute here Context attribute is in inside the three nodes. how can I capture the inside value attribute and how to intialize the value.
My Context nodes are --MainNode 
                          --childnodeOne
                               --childNode2
                                    --valueAttribute.
The above way my context node strucure and I have mapped this value attribute to dropdownbyindex for this how to initilze the value.
Advance thanks.
Kris.

Answer 1

Hi
Assumung you have context structure as follows:
MainNode(Cardinality 1..1, Sigleton)
|_ChildNode1(Cardinality 1..1,Non Sigleton)
    |_ChildNode2(Cardinality 0..n,Non Sigleton)
        |_ValueAttribute
As you said that you have mapped the value attribute which is inside three nodes.
You can create the values as follows:
e.g.
for(int i =0;i < 5; i++)
     IChildNode2Element cn2 = wdContext.createChildNode2Element();
     cn2.setValueAttribute("VA"+i);
     wdContext.currentMainNodeElement().nodeChildNode1().currentChildNode1Element().nodeChildNode2().addElement(cn2);
This will create 5 values in the drpdown.
Now to initialize the value you can set the leadselection for the node ChildNode2:
e.g
wdContext.nodeChildNode2().setLeadSelection(3);
This will display the 4th value in the drpdown ibitially.
To get the value currently selected in dropdown you can write something like this:
wdContext.currentMainNodeElement().nodeChildNode1().currentChildNode1Element().nodeChildNode2().currentChildNode2Element().getValueAttribute());
Regards,
Ajay