DropDownListFor SelectedIndex

[Nathan]

I'm working with Kendo UI on an MVC application. We have a grid and when the user opens the row for editing we have a dropDownList that holds company names. I'm trying to get the DDL to default to the company name that's pertinent to the row.

Here's the column code:

columns.Bound(e => e.company_business_name).Width(220).Title("Company")
    .EditorTemplateName("CompanyName");

and here's the editorTemplate code:

 

@model  string

@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m)
        .DataTextField("Text")
        .DataValueField("Value")</p><p>
        .BindTo((System.Collections.IEnumerable)ViewData["Companies"])
 )

and the method that fills the DDL:

private void PopulateCompanies()
    {
        var companyList = new List<SelectListItem>();

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Session["Companies"] as string))
        {
            companyList = (List<SelectListItem>)Session["Companies"];
        }
        else
        {
            companyList = new DataAccess().GetCompanies(CurrentSettings.getUser().userId);
            CacheCompanies(companyList);
        }

        ViewData["Companies"] = companyList;

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Nathan,

We would suggest you to check the explanation and example Igorrious provides in this thread, which discusses a similar scenarios. Make sure the DropDownList's Name matches the column's name (or if you prefer to use the DropDownListFor helper to set the model properly: DropDownListFor(m => m.company_business_name)

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
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