--- title: "Selected District not retrieved for employee in edit view get" description: "Selected District not retrieved for employee in edit view get" author: "Abeer Shlby" published: 2016-08-28 updated: 2016-08-28 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34167/selected-district-not-retrieved-for-employee-in-edit-view-get category: "asp.net mvc" tags: ["asp.net mvc", "linq to sql", "linq to entities"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Selected District not retrieved for employee in edit view get ![Selected District not retrieved for employee in edit view get](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickforums/c51488ca-331b-4957-b620-920073000ae9/images/964e19b3-884e-4bed-ae63-868274cd866d.png)\ see image above to know what i needI have three drop down list Country,City,Districtthree drop down list cascade each othermeaning select country fill City and select City fill District in edit or create bothin edit view i can get value selected previous for country and city for employee i need to editbut District cannot get selected value for employee i need to edit\ in Edit view (get)\ @model WebCourse.Models.Customemployee2@{ Layout = null;}\ \ Edit
@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
Name:@Html.TextBoxFor(a => a.Name)
Country:@Html.DropDownList("CountryId")
City:
District:
}\
in Edit function in controller empcourse\ public class empcourseController : Controller { mycourseEntities db = new mycourseEntities();\ // GET: empcourse public ActionResult Edit(int id) { Employee old = db.Employees.Find(id); if (old != null) {// country and city working//district not working int countryid = old.Destrict.City.Country.Id; var vm = new Customemployee2(); vm.Name = old.Name; ViewBag.CountryId = new SelectList(db.Countries.ToList(), "Id", "CountryName",countryid); ViewBag.Cityid = old.Destrict.City.Id; ViewBag.dist = old.DistrictId; return View(vm); }//getcitybyid retrieve city it call in ajax in jquery and it working public JsonResult getcitybyid(int id) { db.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false; return Json(db.Cities.Where(a => a.CountryId == id), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); }//getdistrictbyid retrieve district it call in ajax in jquery and it working public JsonResult getdistrictbyid(int id) { db.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false; return Json(db.Destricts.Where(a => a.CityId == id), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); } }in model Customemployee2\ public class Customemployee2 { public string Name { get; set; } public int DistrictId { get; set; }\ }} --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34167/selected-district-not-retrieved-for-employee-in-edit-view-get Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.