Question

I have a primary form defined and nicely laid out, it does what it needs to do…

@{ Html.BeginForm(); }
@Html.ValidationSummary(false)
@Html.AntiForgeryToken()
@Html.EditorFor(model => model)
<h2>Properties</h2>
<hr />
@* I want to put some stuff here... *@
<br class="space" />
<div class="clearfix">>
    <button type="submit" data-bind="click: save">
        Save
    </button>
</div>
@{ Html.EndForm(); }

Now, then. This model (or ViewModel, rather) has an IList<PropertyViewModel> attached to it.

A PropertyViewModel has its own set of validations. They are pretty simple for now, but there is a chance that later there will be more complicated uses for this setup.

I am using KnockoutJS for my viewModel consistency. Though I suppose it is fairly irrelevent. I want to display a second form in a jQuery UI Dialog and return the result, essentially..

<script type="text/javascript">
    var viewModel = {
        name: ko.observable(),
        description: ko.observable(),
        properties: ko.observableArray(),

        save: function () {
            alert(ko.toJSON(viewModel));
        },

        includeProperty: function () {
            $("#dialog").dialog({
                width: 500,
                closeText: '',
                resizable: true,
                buttons: {
                    'Submit': function () {
                        $(this).dialog('close');
                        callback( @* I want the new data to get sent back *@ );
                    },
                    'Cancel': function () {
                        $(this).dialog('close');
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    };
    function callback(value) {
        alert(ko.toJSON(value)); // (I will push the new property to the viewmodel here)
    }
    ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
</script>

However, I am not really sure how to actually put the EditorTemplate into the dialog, moreover I am not sure how to get the data back out of it.

Answer 1

I don’t completely understand your question, but from what I understood what you are trying to do is pass data to the dialog and retrieve data from the dialog. If that is the case then this may be useful:

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.data/

Here is detailed example on how to use:

Passing data to a jQuery UI Dialog