Module Builder is by far one of the best features of Sitefinity. Not only do you get to create a database through a nice user interface, but you get to edit the presentation of the data with the Widget Template editor.
There's a lot to learn with this feature, but the one item I want to focus on today is creating conditional statements (if-then-else logic).
You may want to change entire pieces of HTML based on the property of a module. Sitefinity allows this with the sf:condition tag, which works like so:
<sf:conditional if='<%# Eval("ProductType").ToString()=="build-to-spec" %>' runat="server">
<then>
</then>
<else>
</else>
</sf:conditional>
The trick to get this to work is the Eval statement. The Eval syntax is straight .NET WebForms, nothing really to do with Sitefinity here. The ProductType is a custom field on the module that is defined as a multiple choice, like so:
Note that you specify the choice values in Module Builder, and here it's 'off-the-shelf' or 'build-to-spec'. You just have to ToString() the Eval statement to be able to do a comparison.
Within the then and else tags you can just put HTML.
