Question

I have an asp.net MVC web app using Kendo UI Grids with client templates. The client template specifies an href as follows:

.ClientTemplate("<a href='[controller]/[action]/[parameters]' />")

In a debug run, the link is correctly generated as follows:

http://localhost:[port]/[Controller]/[Action]?[parameters]

works beautifully.

However, in a deployed environment, the link generated is as follows:

http://[server]/[Controller]/[Action]?[parameters]

And that fails because it is missing the website name. So what I need is for it to generate the links as follows:

http://[server]/[WebSite]/[Controller]/[Action]?[parameters]

How do I need to specify my href links for this to work?

Answer 1

Don’t hand-code your url’s instead of use the UrlHelper which will take care of including the virtual directory into your urls:

.ClientTemplates(string.Format("<a href='{0}' />", 
                     Url.Action("action", "contoller", new { param1, param2})))

If you want to use the client template value in the url you have to build the url dynamically because the Kendo UI template syntax won’t inside the route value:

columns.Bound(m => m.Id)
       .ClientTemplate(string.Format("<a href='{0}&Id=#= Id #'>Click me<a>", 
           Url.Action("action", "contoller", new { someNotTemplatedParam })));