Question

I am working with MVC3 and entity framework

I have got a table with:

id – Day of the week – Muscle – amount of sets – Customer

This is one table… It’s just a simple little project.

But my problem is that I don’t know how to get the proper View to get.

  **Monday    Tuesday    Wednesday   Thursday   Friday   Saturday   Sunday**
    Muscle    Muscle     etc...
    sets      sets

What I think I should do…first getting the list of the days the customer (which he created) wants to workout

Model

fitnessday is an property which is connected with my database with datacontext.

so like

   public class FitnessDay
  {
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string dayoftheweek{ get; set; }
    public string muscle{ get; set; }
    public Nullable<int> sets{ get; set; }
    public Nullable<int> customerId{ get; set; }


     public virtual Customer Customers{ get; set; }
  }

  public class Customer 
   {
    public Customer()
    {
        this.fitnessDay = new HashSet<fitnessDay>();
    }

    // Primitive properties

    public int id { get; set; }
    public string name{ get; set; }
    public string lastname{ get; set; }

    // Navigation properties

    public virtual ICollection<fitnessDay> fitnessDay { get; set; }

 }

–

    private IList<fitnessDay> trainingList= null;

          public IList<fitnessDay> Training() 
       {
           string nameOfCustomer= "bob";
           var Training1 = db.fitness.Where(c => c.Customer.name== nameOfCustomer); 

           trainingList= Training1.ToList();
           return trainingList;

       }

Controller

        public ViewResult TrainingView()
    {
        var list = model.training();

        return View(list); 
    }

view

   Don't know how to show it here.

Can someone help me out get the day of the week and place the proper Muscle and set underneath it (there could be several muscles per day)

edit: new information added

Answer 1

This was created to display the periodic table, but it’s a great piece of ui
http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
It does require a fair amount of jquery knowledge but, again, it’s a great piece of ui a very adaptable.
That is, of course, if you’re looking for something a bit more that a calendar.

edit
Since jquery is really not your thing here’s what I think is a simple suggestion.
On the controller side, load all training sessions ORDER ASC (I don’t know how to work with Linq but surely it can be done). I’m also assuming that you know the BETWEEN dates of traings you’re querying.
So in the controller you’d aglomerate the dates like this:

    public ActionResult Trainings()
    {
        //dummy data
        var trainings = new List<Training>();
        trainings.Add(new Training { TrainingDay = DateTime.Now });

        var week = new Dictionary<DayOfWeek, List<Training>>() 
        { 
            { DayOfWeek.Monday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Tuesday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Wednesday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Thursday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Friday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Saturday, new List<Training>() },
            { DayOfWeek.Sunday, new List<Training>() },
        };
        for (int i = 0; i < trainings.Count; i++) 
        {
            switch (trainings[i].TrainingDay.DayOfWeek)
            {
                case DayOfWeek.Friday:
                    week[DayOfWeek.Friday].Add(trainings[i]);
                    break;
                case DayOfWeek.Monday:
                    week[DayOfWeek.Monday].Add(trainings[i]);
                    break;
                case .....

            }
        }
        return View(week);
    }

this would get all the training’s in the same day together (I’ve heard that some people go the gym more that once a day, not sure if that’s true or not).
Now, you can have your view strongly type, so you change it to something like:

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<Dictionary<DayOfWeek, List<Training>>>" %> 

and don’t forget <%@ Import %> the Training namespace and finally you view could be something like this:

   <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Monday</td>
            <td>Tuesday</td>
            <td>Wednesday</td>
            <td>Thursday</td>
            <td>Friday</td>
            <td>Saturday</td>
            <td>Sunday</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <%foreach (KeyValuePair<DayOfWeek, List<Training>> entry in Model){%>
                <td>
                    <%if (entry.Key == DayOfWeek.Monday){
                       foreach (var training in entry.Value){
                        Response.Write(training.TrainingDay); 
                       } 
                    }%> 
                </td>
            <%} %>
        </tr>
   </table>

Obviously instead of repeating the same code for the entries you could create an extension method for the Html object.