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28 Mar 20184 minutes to read

Render Kanban from Code behind

Kanban can be rendered from the code behind by initializing the required properties in controller and passing those properties via ViewData or Model to the client side.

The following code illustrates the initialization of Kanban properties in the controller.

C#

//Namespace to get the JavaScript (Kanban) component properties
using Syncfusion.JavaScript.Models;

namespace MvcApplication.Controllers
{
    public class KanbanController: Controller
    {
        public ActionResult KanbanFeatures()
        {

             // Initialize data for Kanban

            List<Tasks> Task = new List<Tasks>();

            Task.Add(new Tasks(1, "Open", "Analyze the new requirements gathered from the customer.", "Story", "Low", "Analyze,Customer", 3.5, "Andrew Fuller", "../content/images/kanban/1.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(2, "InProgress", "Improve application performance", "Improvement", "Normal", "Improvement", 6, "Andrew Fuller", "../content/images/kanban/2.png", 1));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(3, "Open", "Arrange a web meeting with the customer to get new requirements.", "Others", "Critical", "Meeting", 5.5, "Janet", "../content/images/kanban/3.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(4, "InProgress", "Fix the issues reported in the IE browser.", "Bug", "Release Breaker", "IE", 2.5, "Janet", "../content/images/kanban/3.png", 2));
            Task.Add(new Tasks(5, "Testing", "Fix the issues reported by the customer.", "Bug", "Low", "Customer", 3.5, "Andrew Fuller", "../content/images/kanban/5.png", 1));


            //Initializing the kanban model

            KanbanProperties kanbanObj = new KanbanProperties();


            //Initializing the datasource and columns 

             kanbanObj.DataSource = Task;

             kanbanObj.Columns.Add(new KanbanColumn() { HeaderText = "Backlog", Key = new List<string> { "Open" } });
             kanbanObj.Columns.Add(new KanbanColumn() { HeaderText = "In Progress", Key = new List<string> { "InProgress" } });
             kanbanObj.Columns.Add(new KanbanColumn() { HeaderText = "Done", Key = new List<string> { "Close" } });

            //Define the fields

            kanbanObj.KeyField = "Status";

            kanbanObj.Fields.Color = "Type";
            kanbanObj.Fields.Content = "Summary";
            kanbanObj.Fields.PrimaryKey = "Id";

          //Passing kanban properties using the ViewData

            ViewData["KanbanModel"] = kanbanObj;

            return View();
        }
    }
}

Binding the Kanban properties passed via ViewData from the controller in the client side as below.

CSHTML

@{
    Html.EJ().Kanban("Kanban", (Syncfusion.JavaScript.Models.KanbanProperties)ViewData["KanbanModel"]).Render();
}