[Solved] Conditional DetailView with Server Binding

[Sam Rossetti]

I currently have a partial view that renders the Telerik MVC Grid. The model passed to the partial view contains a bool field that states whether or not the grid should contain a detail view.

The following code doesn't render the table but leaves the expand controls in place. Ideally I would like to hide the expand controls and the rendering of the template on the server side.

.DetailView(detailView => detailView.Template(
            @<text>
                @{ if (!Model.IsLowestLevel) {
                    @*render grid*@
                   }
                }
            </text>))

[Sam Rossetti]

Please disregard this post or just delete it.

[Sam Rossetti]

I should of figured this out yesterday but the solution is to simply store my grid object in a variable and then check the bool in my model. Then I can modify my variable by adding the detail view on.

@{
    var mainGrid = Html.Telerik().Grid(Model.Rows)
    .Name("Grid_" + Model.Id);

    if (!Model.IsEditable) {
        mainGrid = mainGrid.DetailView(detailView => detailView.Template(
            @<text>
                @* Render Grid here *@
            </text>
        ));
    }

    mainGrid.Render();
    }

[Jesse]

Sam, thanks for sharing your solution.  This was exactly what I needed to do as well.