How to bind the current data to grid when edit button is pressed

[Victor]

I have a grid with data on it. When I want to edit the data, I need to press the edit button and a new edit form will open with the current data from the row.

For the textboxes I use: 

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.SubStatus)

Now the issue is the dropDownList. Here is my code. the initial value is always blank?

CSHTML code:

@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m.SubType)
                .Name("SubsType") 
                .DataTextField("SubType1")
                .DataValueField("SubType_ID") 
                .DataSource(source =>
                {
                    source.Custom()
                          .ServerFiltering(true)
                          .Type("aspnetmvc-ajax")
                          .Transport(transport =>
                          {
                              transport.Read("GetType", "Welcome");
                          })
                          .Schema(schema =>
                          {
                              schema.Data("Data")
                                    .Total("Total"); 
                          });
                })
            )

 

Razor code:

 public JsonResult GetSubType([DataSourceRequest] DataSourceRequest dropDownRequest)
        {
            IList<SubType> myViewModels = new List<SubType>();

            foreach (SubType subType in db.ExecuteStoredProcedure<SubType>("proc_getType", null))
            {
                SubType subtype = new SubType()
                {
                    SubType_ID = subType.SubType_ID,
                    SubType1 = subType.SubType1
                };
                myViewModels.Add(subtype);
            }
            return Json(myViewModels.ToDataSourceResult(dropDownRequest), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
        }

Right now I get the list from the database. when the dropdownlist is pressed. but I want to set the initial value of the list to be the current value. How to do it?

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Victor,

The problem you are experiencing is related to the fact that the name is overridden by the Name method. When strongly-typed extension is used (For<T>) then Name is not required. You can find more details here.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
Telerik