public async Task <IActionResult> AddBook([FromBody] AddNewDynamicItem parameters)
{
// This is the POST action that will be called whenever the user clicks
// the "Add new item" link in a DynamicList view. It accepts a an object
// of the class ListItemParameters that contains information about where
// the item needs to be inserted (i.e. the id of the div to where contents
// as well as the path to your viewmodels in the main form). All of those
// are computed automatically from the view by the library.
var newBookViewModel = new BookViewModel()
{
Title = "New book",
PublicationYear = "1994"
};
// Now you have to call the extension PartialView method passing the view model
// and any additional options you might want to include in your view model. This
// is an extension method that creates a partial view with the needed HTML prefix
// for the fields in your form so the form will post correctly when submitted.
// Note: when using POST, we need to pass as well an instance of ICompositeViewEngine
// which you can obtain through Dependency Injection in your controller's constructor.
return(await this.PartialViewAsync(_viewEngine, newBookViewModel, parameters, new MyOptions <BookViewModel>()
{
Title = "Item title",
Subtitle = "Note: the close button should have different styles in the Create and in the Edit " +
"views. This happens because the Create.cshtml view passes an extra parameter to the template " +
"to set it to red.",
CanRemove = true
}));
}
public IActionResult AddBook(AddNewDynamicItem parameters)
{
// This is the GET action that will be called whenever the user clicks
// the "Add new item" link in a DynamicList view. It accepts a an object
// of the class ListItemParameters that contains information about where
// the item needs to be inserted (i.e. the id of the div to where contents
// as well as the path to your viewmodels in the main form). All of those
// are computed automatically from the view by the library.
// Now here you can create another view model for your model
var newBookViewModel = new BookViewModel()
{
Title = "New book",
PublicationYear = "1994"
};
// Now you have to call the extension PartialView method passing the view model
// and any additional options you might want to include in your view model. This
// is an extension method that creates a partial view with the needed HTML prefix
// for the fields in your form so the form will post correctly when submitted.
return(this.PartialView(newBookViewModel, parameters, new MyOptions <BookViewModel>()
{
Title = "Dynamic item",
Subtitle = "Note: This text was set in the AuthorsController even though the view models " +
"did not include a field for it. The 'options' mechanism used by this library avoids " +
"cluttering your existing view models with too many little details about the view.",
CanRemove = true
}));
}
public IActionResult AddReagent(AddNewDynamicItem parameters)
{
var reagentChoices = _context.Reagents.Select(r => new { r.Id, r.Name }).ToList();
var newOrderReagent = new OrderReagent()
{
ReagentChoices = new SelectList(reagentChoices, "Id", "Name")
};
return(this.PartialView(newOrderReagent, parameters));
}
public IActionResult AddMaterial(AddNewDynamicItem parameters)
{
// This is the GET action that will be called whenever the user clicks
// the "Add new item" link in a DynamicList view. It accepts a an object
// of the class ListItemParameters that contains information about where
// the item needs to be inserted (i.e. the id of the div to where contents
// as well as the path to your viewmodels in the main form). All of those
// are computed automatically from the view by the library.
// Now here you can create another view model for your model
var newMaterialViewModel = new MaterialViewModel()
{
Title = "New Material"
};
// Now you have to call the extension PartialView method passing the view model.
// This is an extension method that creates a partial view with the needed HTML
// prefix for the fields in your form so the form will post correctly when it
// gets submitted.
return(this.PartialView(newMaterialViewModel, parameters));
}
