Question

When I use the auto creation of controllers/models/views from entity framework and designer I get a pretty clean edit form. One of the 1 to 1 relationships creates a dropdownlist that presents the user with values from a specific column but I want it to user another column/property.

How is this done?

(FYI, I’m not looking for a class in MVVM and how to isolate this in a view model. I don’t have the bandwidth to learn and recreate this application with view model classes.)

    <div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Domain, "Domain1")
    </div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.DropDownList("Domain", String.Empty))
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Domain)
    </div>

controller:

    public ActionResult Edit(int id)
    {
        ClientJob clientjob = db.ClientJobs.Find(id);
        ViewBag.ClientId = new SelectList(db.Clients, "Id", "ClientName", clientjob.ClientId);
        ViewBag.CurrencyType = new SelectList(db.CurrencyTypes, "Id", "TypeName", clientjob.CurrencyType);
        ViewBag.Domain = new SelectList(db.Domains, "Id", "DomainName", clientjob.Domain);
        ViewBag.JobType = new SelectList(db.JobTypes, "Id", "JobTypeName", clientjob.JobType);
        ViewBag.DatabaseServer = new SelectList(db.Servers, "Id", "ServerName", clientjob.DatabaseServer);
        ViewBag.ProcessingServer = new SelectList(db.Servers, "Id", "ServerName", clientjob.ProcessingServer);
        ViewBag.QueryServer = new SelectList(db.Servers, "Id", "ServerName", clientjob.QueryServer);
        return View(clientjob);
    }

Answer 1

The auto created code just created select lists:

ViewBag.Domain = new SelectList(db.Domains, "Id", "DomainName", clientjob.Domain);

I just needed to change the column name in the SelectList:

ViewBag.Domain = new SelectList(db.Domains, "Id", "DomainType", clientjob.Domain);