I quess this is on EPiServer 4?

Had the same problem a while ago, dont remember what I did but it was either

bool test = true;
_prop.ParseValidation(null,new ServerValidateEventArgs(_prop.ToString(), test));

or

finding the inner value textbox with FindControl("_Editor")
and retrive the content from Request object

Hope it helps

It's on EPiServer 5.1 and i'm converting the code from 4.6. On 4.6 I used CurrentPage.property.add insted of using the innerproperty but it's not possible anymore. The property.add i "read only" in EPiServer 5.

I got the code working using Request object but it feels wrong.

Think you have to Find the   IPropertyControl control inside the ctlHtmlEditor

try

IPropertyControl ctr=ctlHtmlEditor.controls[0] as IPropertyControl 

ctr.ApplyChanges();

now I quess the value is set... (sorry about links, using reflector)

Hi

I'm assuming your code is on a page that in some form inherits from PageBase. What you need to do is to call the method PrepareForSave(), that you can find on PageBase, before you check the value.

PrepareForSave() will call ApplyChanges() on all controls that are of the type IPropertyControl which will set the value, as Anders said.

Also you need to make sure that your PropertyXhtmlString is writeable.

I think Linus Ekström wrote a good forum reply regarding this, too lazy to find it now though ;)

Regards

Per Gunsarfs
EPiServer CMS development team

I think the CurrentPage is ReadOnly in the scheme is Thomas describing. So that function Per is pointing to would not work,  but the function that PreperForSave is using SetValuesForPropertyControls(Control control) looks like it does the trick.

Havent looked in PageBase in a long time I see
Many nice function here

Edit:typos

Hi,

the other forum post that Per refers to is this,

http://world.episerver.com/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=19369&epslanguage=en

but I'll think its time for an article about this...

Hi,

Thanks for all the response .

Anders code did the trick.

IPropertyControl ctr = ctlHtmlEditor.Controls[0] as IPropertyControl;
ctr.ApplyChanges();

I then used ctlHtmlEditor.PropertyValue.ToString() to access the value. I first tried the PrepareForSave but not luck there. The other thread hade no solution for this what I could find.

That was good news

Just for the record, I would have used the SetValuesForPropertyControls(ctlHtmlEditor) insted of ctlHtmlEditor.Controls[0]