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I'm somewhat new to MVC and have been following along with a tutorial but it has no answers regarding my question. For my Create page, the Foreign keys are not showing up. Basically, on the Projects page I created a project, on the People page I created a person. So when I try to create a ProjectRole on the ProjectRoles page, the ProjectId and PersonId are not showing up in the drop-down menu. Down below all of my code, I have provided a screenshot of what I have tried to put into words.

What I have tried:

I have tried:

Models:
public class Project
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [MaxLength(30)]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime DueDate { get; set; }

    public ICollection<ProjectRole> ProjectRoles { get; set; }
}

public class Person
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [MaxLength(30)]
    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [MaxLength(30)]
    public string MiddleName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [MaxLength(30)]
    public string LastName { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public string Email { get; set; }

    public ICollection<ProjectRole> ProjectRoles { get; set; }
}
public class ProjectRole
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public double HourlyRate { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("Person")]
    public int PersonId { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("Project")]
    public int ProjectId { get; set; }

    [ForeignKey("AppRole")]
    public int RoleId { get; set; }

}

Controller:
<pre>public IActionResult Create()
{
    return View();
}

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<IActionResult> Create([Bind("Id,HourlyRate,PersonId,ProjectId,RoleId")] ProjectRole projectRole)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        _context.Add(projectRole);
        await _context.SaveChangesAsync();
        return RedirectToAction(nameof(Index));
    }
    return View(projectRole);
}

View:
<pre>@model Project2.Models.Entities.ProjectRole

@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Create";
}

<h1>Create</h1>

<h4>ProjectRole</h4>
<hr />
<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <form asp-action="Create">
            <div asp-validation-summary="ModelOnly" class="text-danger"></div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label asp-for="HourlyRate" class="control-label"></label>
                <input asp-for="HourlyRate" class="form-control" />
                <span asp-validation-for="HourlyRate" class="text-danger"></span>
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label asp-for="PersonId" class="control-label"></label>
                <select asp-for="PersonId" class ="form-control" asp-items="ViewBag.PersonId"></select>
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label asp-for="ProjectId" class="control-label"></label>
                <select asp-for="ProjectId" class ="form-control" asp-items="ViewBag.ProjectId"></select>
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <label asp-for="RoleId" class="control-label"></label>
                <input asp-for="RoleId" class="form-control" />
                <span asp-validation-for="RoleId" class="text-danger"></span>
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="submit" value="Create" class="btn btn-primary" />
            </div>
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

<div>
    <a asp-action="Index">Back to List</a>
</div>

@section Scripts {
    @{await Html.RenderPartialAsync("_ValidationScriptsPartial");}
}

Screenshot of example of what I mean
Posted
Updated 2-Nov-21 0:02am

1 solution

You're not populating the ViewBag collections used in your view. Either the tutorial you're following hasn't got to that part yet, or it's not a good tutorial.

Create a method in your controller to populate the lookups, and call it before displaying the view.
C#
private void PopulateLookups(ProjectRole role)
{
    var projects = _context.Projects.OrderBy(p => p.Name).ToList();
    ViewBag.ProjectId = projects.Select(p => new SelectListItem
    {
        Value = p.Id.ToString(),
        Text = p.Name,
        Selected = p.Id == role.ProjectId,
    });
    
    var people = _context.People.OrderBy(p => p.LastName).ThenBy(p => p.FirstName).ToList();
    ViewBag.PersonId = people.Select(p => new SelectListItem
    {
        Value = p.Id.ToString(),
        Text = $"{p.LastName}, {p.FirstName} {p.MiddleName}",
        Selected = p.Id == role.PersonId,
    });
}

[HttpGet]
public IActionResult Create()
{
    ProjectRole model = new ProjectRole();
    PopulateLookups(model);
    return View(model);
}

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<IActionResult> Create([Bind("Id,HourlyRate,PersonId,ProjectId,RoleId")] ProjectRole projectRole)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        _context.Add(projectRole);
        await _context.SaveChangesAsync();
        return RedirectToAction(nameof(Index));
    }
    
    PopulateLookups(projectRole);
    return View(projectRole);
}
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mrnewguy2020 2-Nov-21 16:37pm    
You are a life saver. Much appreciated!

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