I'm failing at getting the selected item on a mvc dropdown list. I can't stand viewdata, and every example uses it. Here is my code,
//controller
public ActionResult Register(Models.Person APerson)
{
}
public class Person
{
public Person().............
I'm working on a MVC3 web application. I want a list of categories shown when editing a blo from whe applications managements system. In my viewmodel i've got the following property defined for a list of selectlistitems for categories.
/// <summary>
/// The List of categories
/// </summary>
[Display(Name = "Categorie")]
public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> Categories { get; set; }
The next step, my controller contains the following edit action where the list of selectlistitems is filled from the database.
public ActionResult Edit(Guid id)
{
var blogToEdit = _blogService.First(x => x.Id.Equals(id));
var listOfCategories = _categorieService.GetAll();
var selectList = listOfCategories.Select(x =>new SelectListItem{Text = x.Name, Value = x.Id.ToString(), Selected = x.Id.Equals(blogToEdit.Category.Id)}).ToList();
selectList.Insert(0, new SelectListItem{Text = Messages.SelectAnItem, Value = Messages.SelectAnItem});
var viewModel = new BlogModel
{
BlogId = blogToEdit.Id,
Active = blogToEdit.Actief,
Content = blogToEdit.Text,
Title = blogToEdit.Titel,
Categories = selectList //at this point i see the expected item being selected
//Categories = new IEnumerable<SelectListItem>(listOfCategories, "Id", "Naam", blogToEdit.CategorieId)
};
return View(viewModel);
}
When i set a breakpoint just before the view is being returned, i see that the selectlist is filled as i expected. So at this point everything seems to be okay. The viewmodel is filled entirely correct.
Then in my view (i'm using Razor) i've got the following two rules which are supposed to render the selectlist for me.
@Html.LabelFor(m => m.Categories) @Html.DropDownListFor(model=>model.Categories, Model.Categories, Model.CategoryId)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Categories)
When I run the code and open the view to edit my blog, I can see all the correct data. Also the selectlist is rendered correctly, but the item i want to be selected lost it's selection. How can this be? Until the point the viewmodel is being returned with the view everything is okay. But when i view the webpage in the browser, the selectlist is there only with out the correct selection. What am I missing here? Or doing wrong?
why SelectList dont have a default constructor new SelectList()
View 1 RepliesI followed MVC 2 source to create a CheckBoxList helper.
I was able to identify the problem I am having but not able to solve it.
On my view I have the following:
[Code]....
The problem is in the bold part ...
The newSelectList is equal to selectList but all items were deselected.
What am I missing?
how can i disable first value in the select list when the checkbox is clicked
View 2 Repliesi have wrote the following code inside a model class, but there was an error that indicates that the select list could not be found:-
public SelectList Countries {
get;
private
set; }
so which "using system" i should add????
Is there a way to remove items from a SelectList?
View 1 RepliesI cannot get my code to work with the usual workarounds. I have a model which exposes a SelectList and a value for the selected item in it. The list is built like: new SelectList(persons, "Id", "Name");
where persons is an array of type Person with a *string* property named Id and a string property named Name. My model has a SelectList property returning a list built as shown, and a SelectedPersonId *string* property which should be updated by the dropdown. Here's my view code:
Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.SelectedPersonId, Model.PersonList)
I can see the persons in the dropdown and select one item, but the model's SelectedPersonId property never gets updated (I get a null). Of the two workarounds I found googling around, one stated to build the SelectList in the model, using the constructor shown above; another recommended to ensure that the selected value is a string. I did both, but still it does not work.
I had been building my SelectLists in the View, but I found examples doing it in code that I liked better. Now I'm creating one of my SelectLists like this:
[Code]....
And all is good, but I'm not sure how to do two things. First, I'd like to add an initial SelectListItem that prompts the user to select a value. When instantiating the SelectList in a loop this is easy, but I was hoping to keep this approach. The second problem is setting the default selected item. In the constructor it shows the 4th parameter to be used for this purpose, but I'm not certain how to do it. There's a property of this object named "DefaultView". It's a boolean, and I'd like that to determine the selected state. Is this possible?
I have written an Enum extension method that allows me to create a view model and allows me to easily bind a generic Enum to a SelctList like:this.ProductStatusList = new ProductStatusTypes().BindToSelectList<ProductStatusTypes>
(product.Status.ToString());
In my View I can then have:
<% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%>
<fieldset> [code]...
Notice I am using EditorForModel and then a seperate DropDownList. My question is: Is there a way to get the EditorForModel to be clever enough to pick up that I want to use a SelectList instead of a TextBox for status?
I'm trying to display a dropdown on my view page that has a custom text value.
I'm trying to display a list a Contacts. A Contact contains a ContactID, FirstName, and LastName.
<%= Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.ContactId, new SelectList(Model.Contacts, "ContactID", "LastName"), "- Select a Contact -") %>
Right now I'm just displaying the last name, but I'd like to display the first name and last name in the dropdown.
I'm having problems retrieving the values of a selectlist in my form collection. I've tried making a viewmodel with an attribute with the same name as the select list.
I'm honestly just realizing I REALLY don't understand how model binding works with selectlists. I've just been assuming that the following conventions apply:
Name the select list the same thing as the attribute on the model you want it to bind to. Apart from that, I really don't get it. I've looked at several books on it and they're useless frankly. How does a select list work with a) form collection and b) a particular model?
What do I use to set the dataValueField of the Select List when I'm using a list of strings. I want to be able to set the value of the option in the select. If i have:
List<string> list = new List<string>();
list.Add("apple");
list.Add("orange");
and I want my html to be:
<select>
<option value="apple">apple</option>
<option value="orange">orange</option>
</select>
I can currently populate and display a Drop Down using the following model annotations, viewmodel, and custom Editor template - but am having problems persisting the submission (more on that below):
//Domain
Public class Person
{
public string FirstName {get;set;}
public string LastName {get;set;}
public string ClassName {get;set;}
public int ClassId {get;set;}
...
}
//ViewModel
Public class PersonViewModel
{
public Person Person {get;set;}
Like I mentioned, the above works fine - as in the drop down is displayed properly, but obviously in its current state it's not saving the classID (or name) to the Person entity, I understand the problem but not sure how to fix it.
My questions:
How can I save the selected value from the drop down to the Person entity
How can I save both the ID and the Name into the Person entity - I'm guessing only way is a hidden field that gets populated with an onchange event (this sounds weird, I'm sure, but it's being stored in a document DB, so it's not normalized - I may just store Name in the end)
I have my class RoomType:
Int32 Id
String Name
String ColorCode
My viewmodel gets a List<Roomtype> RoomTypes which should be displayed in a dropdown.
Each dropdown option item should have: 1) as title the Name, 2) as value the Id, and 3) the style background-color #ColorCode.
My problems are how to convert this list correctly into a List<SelectListItem> as required by ASP.NET MVC's DropDownFor helper, and then to have the correct values inserted for each option.
I've tried to have a new readonly property in my viewmodel, which has a getter RoomtypeSelectList which returns new SelectList(RoomTypeList) but I can't get the correct properties to show (Name, Id, Background color).
Can i get the selected index,selected value , selected text using javascript of ajax combobox control. if yes send me the sample code.
View 7 RepliesI have two gridviews on same page - If a record is selected in Gridview1, I need to unselect a record (if one is selected) in Gridview2 - and vice-versa.
View 5 RepliesTwo ListBox Items  Compare and  Distinct  Values  Insert  Into  Third  ListBox
View 1 RepliesValues in multiselect dropdown not getting selected when Select All option is selected for a SSRS dropdown. There are multiple dropdowns on the page. We have one dropdown whose output is being used to populate the second dropdown using a stored procedure. When we check the Select All checkbox on the dropdown then ideally upon page refresh all the values should get selected in the dropdown, but in this case the page refreshes back to the blank dropdown, forcing the user to select the values again. The next dropdown too does not get populated. This makes it impossible to run the report for all the cases by using Select All. We ran the report on differnet database environments. My current location is Mumbai,India, the report worked fine when we ran it on a Bangalore,india database. This issue occurs when we try running it on a Chicago database server. I am using SSRS 2005, SQL2005.
View 1 RepliesHow to get the selected item from the listbox in the selected index changed event. I tried: Label1.Text = ListBox1.SelectedItem.Text; It is giving me object set to null reference.
foreach (ListItem item in ListBox1.Items)
{
if (item.Selected)
{
//lblResults.Text += item.Text + "
";
Label1.Text = item.Text;
}
}
No use, no value coming in to label.
how to display GridView Selected Row in dropdownlist and radiobutton outside GridView in ASP.Net?
View 1 RepliesI'm having trouble getting selected items in a listbox to be seen as selected. On my aspx page there's a listbox and a button:
[Code]....
But if I change my condition to Not selected, the string does build, with every item in the list. So the Sub is reached, the items and their text and values are seen, but user selection of items doesn't work. What am I missing?
I´m using a treenode´s selected node´s value to filter a an accessdatasource which populates a gridview.However when I press the "edit" button in the gridview, I guess the node is undselected because the gridview gets emptied. When I reselect the node, the gridview displays the filtered records, and the one being edited is in edited mode.So I´d like to keep the node selected. Not only because of the above, but also so the user can see what he is editing.Fuga.edit: When I remove the filtering from the accessdatasource init event, the gridview diplays all records, but the worng one is being edited. I guess it´s the one with the same index as the filtered record. So, visual studio gets the index and then reloads the data and applies the index on the reloaded data!?
View 6 RepliesThis code will display the selected value from the listbox. E.g. if I sellect Item 1 I will get the following output: You have selected Item 1.
Label1.Text = "You have selected " + DropDownList1.SelectedValue + "<br />";
But if I don't select anything and click on Submit button, I will get: You have selected
What would I need to make it display "You have not selected anything. select at least 1 item."
UPDATE: I am using ASP.NET WebForms.
I am binding months to a list 0-13 items default selection is 0 months duration, and years 0-8 items and 0 years is the default selection.As I know there are always going to be 12 months in a year, I could use selectedvalue or selectedindex without any perceived problem. Is there a reason why I should not use either/or of the two properties to select a list item?
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