Programmatically how to get the SharePoint Custom list/library choice values into dropdown list in SharePoint 2013.
- In SharePoint mostly we used SharePoint custom list for retrieve the items from fields/columns.
- Administrator or who has the access to the list/library can be add new items into SharePoint list Choice field like Year. Create a new web part to get the choice values programatically into Dropdown list.
- This Articles I would like to show how to get the values from choice field from SharePoint custom list and display into dropdown list.Below are the steps to get it done.
- Create new custom list/library and add new column name 'Year' with column type 'Choice'.
- Here is the option to insert the values for dropdown list items – 'Type each choice on a separate line'.
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And click on ok. Go to page to get the values into dd list. So this way you will get all the items into Drop down list programmatically.
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Here is the code how to get choice values from SharePoint custom list/Library.
- private void BindYear()
- {
- SPWeb _web = SPContext.Current.Web;
- SPList list = _web.Lists.TryGetList("Listtitle");
- SPFieldChoice YearChoice = (SPFieldChoice)list.Fields["FieldName"];
- for (int i = 0; i < YearChoice.Choices.Count; i++)
- {
- ddlYear.Items.Add(YearChoice.Choices[i].ToString());
- }
- }