Html.ActionLink not working in a Kendo grid

[Michael Pullella]

@(  Html.Kendo().Grid(Model.Notifications)

        .Name("gridTitanNotifications")

        .Columns(columns => {

            columns.Template(

                @<text>                   

                    <input name="chkNotifications" type="checkbox" value="@item.InstanceID " title="checked notification"/>               

                </text>).Title("").Width(36);

 

            columns.Bound(m => m.NotificationText).Title("Notification");

 

            columns.Template(m => {

                switch (m.LinkType) {

                    case Titan.Entities.Enums.Notification.LinkTypes.Internal:

                        Html.ActionLink("TEST", "test");

                //                      Html.ActionLink(m.LinkText, m.LinkAction, m.LinkController, new { instanceID = m.LinkInstanceID });

                        break;

                    case Titan.Entities.Enums.Notification.LinkTypes.External:

                        break;

                }

            }).Title("Case");

 

            //          columns.Bound(m => m.LinkText).Title("Case");

            columns.Bound(m => m.TimestampCreated).Title("Recieved");

        })

 

                                .RowAction(row => {

                                    if (!row.DataItem.ReadFlag) {

                                        row.HtmlAttributes["style"] = "font-weight: bold";

                                    }

                                })

                        )

[Michael Pullella]

Sorry about this... Page posted accidentally.
I am trying to get a link ot appear in a Kendo grid via the code below

The link (generated via the column.template) will not display anything in the Case column.  If I do the columns.Bound(m=> m.LinkText).Title("Case"), however I do see the data displayed correctly.


I have tried something as basic as Html.ActionLink("TEST", "test"); but that doesn't display anything either.
I really need the line

 Html.ActionLink(m.LinkText, m.LinkAction, m.LinkController, new { instanceID = m.LinkInstanceID });

to work.  Any suggestions as to what I may be doing incorrectly? 

[Michael Pullella]

Something to add to this:

I can get the link to appear if I do something like this:
columns.Template(m => Html.ActionLink(m.NotificationText, null));

but without the braces, I have no way of doing a switch statement, etc

[Rosen]

Hi Michael,

You should output the ActionLink generated html instead of just calling the method, something similar to the following:

columns.Template(
    @<text>
        @{switch (item.LinkType)
            {
                case Titan.Entities.Enums.Notification.LinkTypes.Internal:
                    @Html.ActionLink("TEST", "test");
                    break;
                case Titan.Entities.Enums.Notification.LinkTypes.External:
                    break;
            }
   }
    </text>).Title("Case");

All the best,
Rosen
the Telerik team