Question

I have 2 customer views one for create and one for edit. I am using the same customer view model for both. I want to make the ‘customer no field’ required on the add, but not the edit.

If I put the requiredfield attribute on the view model property then both views flag ‘Customer No’ as required (as you would expect).

Is there a built in solution to get around this problem or Am I going to have to create 2 seperate view models, one with the attribute and one without.

Thanks

Answer 1

This is similar to this question.

I would strongly advise you to tailor 2 View Models for edit and create actions. It is a lot cleaner. The last answer in the link I gave you makes a workaround and disables the errors on the ModelState.