Does not contain a defination for PicturePath

Emmmanuel FIADUFE

Hello Team,

This is the error I am getting from my code, kindly assist, Employee.Models.tblStaff does not contain a defination for PicturePath and no extension method 'PicturePath' accepting a first argument of type.

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Naimish Makwana2y ago
Accepted answer
The error message you’re seeing is indicating that the tblStaff class does not have a property named PicturePath. In your SaveStaff method, you’re trying to assign a value to saveStaff.PicturePath, which is causing the error.

Your StaffViewModel class does have a PicturePath property, but it seems like this property is not present in your tblStaff class. To resolve this issue, you need to add a PicturePath property to your tblStaff class. Here’s how you can do it:
```
public class tblStaff
{
    // Other properties...

    public string PicturePath { get; set; }
}
```
After adding this property, Entity Framework should create a corresponding column in your tblStaffs table in the database (assuming you’re using Code First). Then, you should be able to assign a value to saveStaff.PicturePath in your SaveStaff method without getting an error.

Thanks
Emmmanuel FIADUFE2y ago
Thank you team,

I did the changes and the error message is no longer showing but when I tried saving data, i got a different error message pop up saying validation failed for one or more entities.
Jayraj Chhaya2y ago
Problem

The error message you mentioned indicates that the tblStaff model does not have a definition for the property PicturePath. This means that the PicturePath property is missing in the tblStaff model, causing the error when trying to assign a value to it.

Cause

The cause of the error is that the tblStaff model does not have a PicturePath property defined. This could be due to a missing or incorrect definition in the model class.

Solution

To fix the error, you need to add the PicturePath property to the tblStaff model class. Open the tblStaff model class and add the following property:
```
public class tblStaff
{
    // Existing properties

    public string PicturePath { get; set; }
}
```
Emmmanuel FIADUFE2y ago
This is the full code.

public ActionResult SaveStaff(StaffViewModel staffmodel)
{
if (staffmodel.StaffId > 0)
{
tblStaff updateStaff = objRestaurantDBEntities.tblStaffs.Where(a => a.StaffId == staffmodel.StaffId).FirstOrDefault();
updateStaff.JoinDate = staffmodel.JoinDate;
updateStaff.FName = staffmodel.FName;
updateStaff.LName = staffmodel.LName;
updateStaff.BirthDate = staffmodel.BirthDate;
updateStaff.Phoneno = staffmodel.Phoneno;
updateStaff.Email = staffmodel.Email;
updateStaff.NextofKing = staffmodel.NextofKing;
updateStaff.Phone = staffmodel.Phone;
objRestaurantDBEntities.SaveChanges();
updateStaff.StaffId = staffmodel.StaffId;
return Json(new { result = true, message = "Staff info updated successfully....!" }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
else
{
tblStaff saveStaff = new tblStaff();
saveStaff.PicturePath = (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(staffmodel.PicturePath)) ? staffmodel.PicturePath : saveStaff.PicturePath;
saveStaff.JoinDate = staffmodel.JoinDate;
saveStaff.FName = staffmodel.FName;
saveStaff.LName = staffmodel.LName;
saveStaff.BirthDate = staffmodel.BirthDate;
saveStaff.Phoneno = staffmodel.Phoneno;
saveStaff.Email = staffmodel.Email;
saveStaff.NextofKing = staffmodel.NextofKing;
saveStaff.Phone = staffmodel.Phone;
objRestaurantDBEntities.tblStaffs.Add(saveStaff);
objRestaurantDBEntities.SaveChanges();
}
return Json(new { result = true, message = "Staff info updated successfully....!" }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

ModelView

public class StaffViewModel
{

public string JoinDate { get; set; }
public string FName { get; set; }
public string LName { get; set; }

public HttpPostedFileBase StaffImage { get; set; }
public string PicturePath { get; set; }



}