Flat taxon selector

This tutorial demonstrates how to add a taxon selector in a widget's designer view. You can select taxa from a flat taxonomy like Tags or a custom classification. For more information on Sitefinity CMS tag, see For developers: Flat taxonomies. For more information on custom classifications in Sitefinity CMS, see Create custom classifications.

The image below shows a flat taxon selector for the News widget:

In your DesignerView.YourView.cshtml file, place one of the following tags anywhere in the HTML code:

Single item selection:

HTML+Razor

<sf-list-selector sf-taxon-selector sf-multiselect="false" sf-sortable="true"
                                 sf-provider="properties.ProviderName.PropertyValue"
                                 sf-selected-item-id="properties.SelectedItemId.PropertyValue" 
                                 sf-selected-item="properties.SelectedItem.PropertyValue"></sf-list-selector>

Multiple items selection:

HTML+Razor

<sf-list-selector sf-taxon-selector sf-multiselect="true" sf-sortable="true"
                               sf-provider="properties.ProviderName.PropertyValue"
                               sf-selected-ids="properties.SelectedItemIds.PropertyValue" 
                               sf-selected-items="properties.SelectedItems.PropertyValue"></sf-list-selector>

The values of the attributes are scope properties that you define in the MVC widget controller.

Attribute	Description
sf-selected-item-id	Single select only. Stores the ID of the selected item.
sf-selected-item	Single select only. Stores the serialized information of the selected item.
sf-selected-ids	Multi select only. Stores the IDs of the selected items.
sf-selected-items	Multi select only. Stores the serialized information of the selected items.
sf-provider	Configures the provider to use when retrieving the items to display.
sf-taxonomy-id	Accepts a scope property holding the GUID of the taxonomy.

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