[Solved] EditorTemplate Model is always empty

[jfkrueger]

I am using an editor template to edit an object from a grid (popup). The @Html.LabelFor and @Html.EditorFor work just fine, but the actual model is always empty and I need to use properties in the model to decide what to display. Why is the model empty and how should I be going about this?
Thanks!

[Daniel]

Hello Joe,

The Model will be "empty" if you are using Ajax binding. The data will be loaded via an Ajax request on the client and is not available on the server. This is why the Grid passes an object with the default values and serializes the editor template so that it can be used after loading the data.
In order to achieve this when using Ajax binding, you should include both editors and use the Grid OnEdit event to remove the one that is not needed based on the values.

All the best,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[jfkrueger]

Ahh that somewhat makes sense. :-)

Thank you!