Grid is not displaying child object properties

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My controller GetItems returns the object correctly (with nested child objects). But in the ui, the grid does not display the nested child field. @Html.Awe().Grid("LessonsGrid").Url(Url.Action("GetItems","Lesson")).Columns( new Column{Name = "Id", Width = 55}, new Column { Name = "Topic.Name", Width = 30 }, new Column { Name = "Topic.Level.Name", Width = 30 }, new Column{Name="Topic.Subject.Name",Width = 100}, new Column{Name="LessonTypeId", Width = 100}, new Column{ClientFormat = EditFormat, Width = 50}, new Column{ClientFormat = DeleteFormat, Width = 50 } ).Parent("txtSearch","search") When I inspect the list being returned from GetItems, I can see Lesson>Topic>Subject>Name and Lesson>Topic>Level>Name and Topic>Name But they are not being displayed on the grid. What am i doing wrong/

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vishal.khoodeeram

asked at 08 Oct 2014

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• BI{code} ?

  it's not supposed to work this way, the Column.Name is used for binding the column mainly (for sorting, grouping) but also gives a default to ClientFormat = .Name if you have . or , in the Name you need to use Map in the GetItems and ClientFormat in the View as shown on this page: http://demo.aspnetawesome.com/GridDemo note in the controller we have the map: Map = o => new { ... CountryName = o.Country.Name, ChefName = o.Chef.FirstName + " " + o.Chef.LastName } and in the view we have this: new Column{Name = "Country.Name", ClientFormat = ".CountryName", Header = "Country"}, new Column{Name = "Chef.FirstName,Chef.LastName", ClientFormat = ".ChefName", Header="Chef"}

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  Omu

  answered at 08 Oct 2014

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