Populate List<Objects> From Mvc 3 view - asp.net-mvc

Question

I Have a Viewmodel based on Nominees . And i can have Multiple Nominees for the viewmodel.
I want to populate the Ilist From the view . Here are my viewmodels
public class DebitViewModel:IValidatableObject
{
public string AgentName { get; set; }
public Debit Debit { get; set; }
public Policy Policy { get; set; }
public PolicyType PolicyType { get; set; }
public Customer Customer { get; set; }
public IList<PolicyType> PolicyTypes { get; set; }
public List<Nominee> Nominees { get; set; }
public Dictionary<int,string> OccupationTypes { get; set; }
}
I want to populate all Nominess automatically when i press submit . so how should i create by view and make it automatically populate List automatically ? instead of serparate objects ?

Answer 1

You could use editor templates:
#model DebitViewModel
#using (Html.BeginForm())
{
... some input fields for the other properties that we are not interested in
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.Nominees)
<button type="submit">OK</button>
}
and then you define a custom editor template for the Nominee model (~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/Nominee.cshtml) which will automatically be rendered for each element of the Nominees collection:
#model Nominee
<div>
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.FirstName)
#Html.EditorFor(x => x.LastName)
...
</div>

Answer 2

say for example the Nominee looks like
public class Nominee{
public int Id{get;set;}
public string Name{get;set;}
public int Age {get;set;}
}
the view would look like
#for (int i = 0; i < Model.Nominees.Count(); i++)
{
<tr>
<td>#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Nominees[i].Name)</td>
<td>#Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Nominees[i].Age)</td>
</tr>
}
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