I have a page I am writing to send emails to customers. One of the ways to select customers to email is to select products they have. Each product has different detail information and you will also be able to choose specifics about the product to narrow down who you are emailing.
Because this is going to be complex I need to do the processing to come up with the customer email list on the controller side but it would be a nightmare to try to pull all the data form the controls to send to it manually.
I would like to use an AJAX call that on the controller side would get the model tied to the view, query the database, and send back the list of emails so on the view I can pop up outlook for them with the list of email addresses already populated. Because I need to go back to the view with data I don't think I can do this with a form post which is how I normally get model into into the controller.
Does someone know how I could accomplish this?
Here are some of the clases I have to try to help people understand my layout
public class ProductType
{
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a product type description")]
public string Description { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ProductTypeDetail> ProductDetails { get; set; }
}
public class ProductTypeDetail
{
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int? ProductTypeID { get; set; }
public ProductType ProductType { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a description")]
public string Description { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a valid type")]
public string Type { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ProductTypeDetailValidValue> ValidValues { get; set; }
}
The above 2 classes are for product types which someone could enter anything for and as many as they want. The product details are detail information you might need to know about your products. For example you could have a product type of Vehicle Registration System and put a product detail item in that for a specific import process that pertains to the product they you need to know if they use or not.
public Customer()
{
SiteVisits = new List<SiteVisit>();
Payments = new List<Payment>();
Contacts = new List<CustomerEmail>();
}
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Name")]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a customer name")]
public string CustomerName { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Line 1")]
public string Address1 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Line 2")]
public string Address2 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Line 3")]
public string Address3 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Line 4")]
public string Address4 { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string State { get; set; }
public string Zip { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a customer type")]
public int CustomerTypeID { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Type")]
public virtual CustomerType CustomerType { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a customer status")]
public int CustomerStatusID { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Status")]
public virtual CustomerStatus CustomerStatus { get; set; }
[DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
public string Comments { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter an expiration year")]
public long ExpirationYear { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter an expiration month")]
public long ExpirationMonth { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a control name")]
public string ControlName { get; set; }
public Boolean Networked { get; set; }
public long Population { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "First Fiscal Month")]
public long FirstMonth { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "FTP User Name")]
public string FTPUserName { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "FTP Password")]
public string FTPPassword { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Customer ID")]
public string CustomerUpdateID { get; set; }
[DataType(DataType.Date)]
[Display(Name = "Customer Since")]
public DateTime? StartDate { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<CustomerPhoneNumber> PhoneNumbers { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<CustomerProduct> Products { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<CustomerEmail> Contacts { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<SiteVisit> SiteVisits { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Payment> Payments { get; set; }
}
public class CustomerProduct
{
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int? ProductTypeID { get; set; }
public virtual ProductType ProductType { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int CustomerID { get; set; }
public virtual Customer Customer { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int? VersionID { get; set; }
public virtual ProductVersion Version { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int? StatusID { get; set; }
public virtual ProductStatus Status { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<CustomerProductDetail> ProductDetails { get; set; }
}
public class CustomerProductDetail
{
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int CustomerProductID { get; set; }
public virtual CustomerProduct CustomerProduct { get; set; }
[HiddenInput(DisplayValue = false)]
public int ProductTypeDetailID { get; set; }
public virtual ProductTypeDetail ProductTypeDetail { get; set; }
//[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter a value")]
public string Value { get; set; }
}
So above I have the customer class. Each customer can be set up with any number of the product types you have set up and you can select values for the product details of that product type for this particular customer. The customers also contain contacts. that is the class that has the email addresses.
So I need to show a screen that displays all the product types you have set up and lets you select values for detail items on products you select then I need to query and find customers that match this
