Set panelbar text with ViewBag value

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  1. Amy
    Amy avatar
    2 posts
    Member since:
    Sep 2017

    Posted 07 Jan 2019 Link to this post

    Is there a way to set a panelbar individual panel title text with a ViewBag value instead of a literal string?  In my code on line 7, the text is set as "Not Submitted". But I would like to populate it with a string value I build and place in Viewbag that shows a count of records for the type of "Not Submitted". It would read like this - "Not Submitted - (20)".  If it's possible, what would be the syntax to use a variable/constant instead of literal string?

                                         

    01.@(Html.Kendo().PanelBar()
    02..Name("panelbar")
    03..ExpandMode(PanelBarExpandMode.Single)
    04..HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:100%" })
    05..Items(panelbar =>
    06.{
    07.      panelbar.Add().Text("Not Submitted")
    08.        .Expanded(false)
    09.}
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  3. Marin Bratanov
    Admin
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    5522 posts

    Posted 09 Jan 2019 Link to this post

    Hello Amy,

    You can use "server" code just about anywhere in a view, including in HTML helpers. Here's an example I made for you that shows three examples, and the result is attached below.

    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        ViewBag.myHeaderText = "Not Submitted - (20)";
        ViewBag.myPlainContentText = "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet";
        ViewBag.anotherHeaderData = 33;
        return View();
    }
    @(Html.Kendo().PanelBar()
        .Name("panelbar")
        .ExpandMode(PanelBarExpandMode.Single)
        .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:100%" })
        .Items(panelbar =>
            {
                panelbar.Add().Text("Not Submitted")
                    .Expanded(false);
                panelbar.Add().Text(ViewBag.myHeaderText).Content(ViewBag.myPlainContentText);
                panelbar.Add().Text("Not Submitted - (" + ViewBag.anotherHeaderData + ")");
            }
        )
    )


    Regards,
    Marin Bratanov
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  5. Answer
    Amy
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    2 posts
    Member since:
    Sep 2017

    Posted 09 Jan 2019 Link to this post

    Yes, that is how I've been trying to code it.   And it works if the panel content is just a string.  But I have a kendo grid as the content.  If I set the panel.Text to the Viewbag value, errors appear on the grid code.  The error is "Cannot use lambda expression as an argument to a dynamically dispatched operation without first casting it to a delegate or expression tree type."  

    I was able to figure out that I needed a cast to string on the ViewBag value in the index and that fixed the problem. 

    panelbar.Add().Text((string)ViewBag.myHeaderText)

     

  7. Marin Bratanov
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    5522 posts

    Posted 10 Jan 2019 Link to this post

    It's good to hear you have this resolved, Amy.

    I am marking your post as the answer to this thread for anyone else having a similar scenario.

    --Marin

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