Submitting Form in MVC 4 model is null in controller post method

Question

So my problem right now is that I cant get my model into my controller when I submit this following form. I am trying to have the items from the BillingCodes (which is a lis

Answer 1

You are doing a foreach on the views, so the input elements should have the values posted somewhere like to this : name="BillingCodes[0].EnterTimeHours", name="BillingCodes[0].EnterTimeMinutes" you can inspect in the network tab the request on Chrome Developer Tools (CTRL+SHIFT+C) or just viewing the source. If this is the case, you are submitting multiple BillingCodeObj objects. You must have a controller that receive that.

Take a look at the source code as this can greatly help you understand what's going on behind the scenes.

Try this on your controller:

[HttpPost]
public void SubmitTimesheet(IEnumerable billingCodes){
}

You can also (for debugging purposes) do

public void SubmitTimesheet(FormCollection form){}

and inspect the form how is populated on debug.

after comments and more code provided change your view to :

@using (Html.BeginForm("SubmitTimesheet", "Timesheet", FormMethod.Post))
{
    @Html.EditorFor(m=>m.BillingCodes)
}

create a new cshtml in EditorTemplates/BillingCodeObj.cshtml :

@model BillingCodeObj

    
        
@Model.Name
        
@Model.TotalHours

        
        
    

    

        

            

            

                Enter Time: 
    

        

            @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.EnterTimeHours, new SelectList(new[] {
                new { Value = "0", Text = "0" },
                new { Value = "1", Text = "1" },
                new { Value = "2", Text = "2" },
                new { Value = "3", Text = "3" },
                new { Value = "4", Text = "4" },
                new { Value = "5", Text = "5" },
                new { Value = "6", Text = "6" },
                new { Value = "7", Text = "7" },
                new { Value = "8", Text = "8" },
                new { Value = "9", Text = "9" },
                new { Value = "10", Text = "10" },
                new { Value = "11", Text = "11" },
                new { Value = "12", Text = "12" },
            }, "Value", "Text")) : 
            @Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.EnterTimeMinutes, new SelectList(new[] {
                new { Value = "0", Text = "00" },
                new { Value = "15", Text = "15" },
                new { Value = "30", Text = "30" },
                new { Value = "45", Text = "45" },
            }, "Value", "Text"))

        
    
            
            


            

            

                
                    Billable @Html.CheckBoxFor(model => model.Billable)
                
            
            

                Enter Memo:
    

        

            @Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Comment)