[Solved] Telerik-MVC Grid Display value of property versus edit value

[Richard]

Hopefully this will have a simple answer.

Using MVC3, I am passing a simple list of POCO objects as a model to my view:

<pre><code>public partial class PeopleAddress
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Address1 { get; set; }
    public string Address2 { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }
    public string Zip { get; set; }
    public int PersonId { get; set; }

    public virtual Person Person { get; set; }
}</code></pre>

I use the PeopleId as the FK property to the Person entity, and the Person navigational property to navigate to the object. Here is my controller for the view:

<pre><code>public ViewResult Index()
    {
        var peopleaddresses = db.PeopleAddresses.Include("Person");
        return View(peopleaddresses.ToList());
    }</code></pre>

Pretty trivial. I add the columns to the grid and normal edit modes, etc in the view, but for the PersonId property.

QUESTION ABOUT COLUMNS: How can I get the select (normal) mode to display the model.Person.Name, but keep the edit mode on editing model.PersonId? For model binding purposes, I need the HTTP post to send PersonId.

Help!

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Richard,

 You can create a bound column that has its template set to display the person name. Something like this:

columns.Bound(p => p.PersonId).Template(p =>
{
>%
     <%= p.Person.Name %>
<%
}).ClientTemplate("<#= Person.Name #>");

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team