How to set Sitecore Droptree source to the item itself

Question

I want to set the source of a droptree to the item so every time I create an instance of that template I can select it's children. Obviously I can't add the ID of the item to the template as it will be different for every instance of the template.

I tried $id in the vain hope that that might work but it didn't.

Is there a way to do this?

Gehman

Answer 1

I think you can just use a query and simply set the source to a relative path:

query:./*

This should set the source to the children of the current node.

Bonus: you can use most query expressions as source, making it possible to filter items based on templates or more complex operations. Check out the query doc at SDN to get started.

Braden

Sadly this doesn't work when added to the Source field in the template builder. I read the document and tried a few things from there (e.g. @@ID) but none of it sets the source correctly. – Gehman

What version of Sitecore are you using? This worked for Sitecore 6.2.0 (100507). – Platus

Yeah, I just re-tried it all again and it's working. Very strange to be honest - it really wasn't working before! Thanks, just what I was looking for. =) – Gehman

Answer 2

You can always use simple XPath queries such as self:: or parent:: . For sets of items it could be descendant:: or child:: . But in your case I believe it will be self::

Reichenberg

To expand on this, the source would be: query:self:: – Hoad