Question

For many days I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to implement Modal dialog editing in a flexigrid.

I started with a very simple example:

http://mvc4beginner.com/Sample-Code/Insert-Update-Delete/Asp-.Net-MVC-Ajax-Insert-Update-Delete-Using-Flexigrid.html

I expanded this example a lot, but I hit a road block and I don’t know how to achieve desired functionality.

I implemented the following jquery function:

    function RunModalDialog(title, url)
    {
        $("#sform").dialog({
            autoOpen: false,
            show: "blind",
            closeOnEscape: true,
            resizable: true,
            width: 1200,
            height: 750,
            minHeight: 600,
            minWidth:950
        });
        if (title)
            $("#sform").dialog("option", "title", title);

        if (url)
            $("#sform").load(url).dialog("open");
        else
          $("#sform").dialog("open");

And I am calling it from Add button (without url) and from the Edit button (with a url).

It works OK for the Add (although I haven’t yet implemented actual save and grid refresh), but I can not make it work on Edit.

Here is my main view code

@model CardNumbers.Objects.Client

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Clients";
}

@section scripts {
    <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/Clients.js")" type="text/javascript" ></script>
}

<form id="frmClientsSearch">
    <label for="clientNo">Client No: </label>
    <input type="number" name="searchClientNo" class="numericOnly" /><br />
    <label for="clientName">Client Name: </label>
    <input type="text" size="25" value="Please enter the search value" class="SelectOnEntry"
        name="searchClientName" />

    <input type="button" id="btnClientsSearch" value="Find / Refresh" />
</form>
<div style="padding-left: 150px; padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 50px;" id="ClientsResults">
    <table id="flexClients" style="display: none">
    </table>
</div>

<div id="editor" style ="visibility :hidden ">
      @using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Post, new { id = "sform", title = "Client Info" }))
     { 
        @Html.Partial("_ClientForm", Model)   
      }      
</div>

And the Edit method of the client controller returns a view which is

    @model CardNumbers.Objects.Client

    @{
        ViewBag.Title = "Edit Client";
        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_PopupLayout.cshtml";
    }

    @Html.Partial("_ClientForm", Model)

    @section Scripts {
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
        
    }

I originally had the BeginForm inside the _ClientForm and I could see the form, but the x (close) and Resize didn’t work. I now tried moving the line that starts the form outside, but now the behavior is even worse.

Can you tell me how this is supposed to work?

Answer 1

Two things I can think of doing is

1. Check that the URL is valid,

2. Call dialog once the div has been filled up

   $("#sform").load(url).dialog("open");

becomes

    $("#sform").load(url, function(){
       $("#sform").dialog("open");
    });

If a "complete" callback is provided, it is executed after post-processing and HTML insertion has been performed.

NOTE THIS WAS A PROPOSED ANSWER TO THE QUESTION BEFORE IT WAS MODIFIED