ASP.Net MVC: Entity Selection in View without using dropdownlist

I have an EditTask View for editing the following properties for a Task that I am modeling.

[Task Name]

[Project Name]

[Assigned Employee]

Task Name and Project Name are just simple text boxes.

I want Assigned Employee to be a selection from all the available Employee's currently in the database. Dropdownlist is not really an ideal option because there could be hundreds if not more possible employees.

I'm thinking a link to show a select employee grid listing in either a popup or another page where filtering can take place (b/c employee has other p开发者_StackOverflow中文版roperties such as Dept) and the selection is made and the EditTask view is updated would be ideal but not sure. I'm new to ASP.NET MVC so I'm a little lost on where to start to implement this.

What is the best way to handle this UI scenario in ASP.net MVC?

Thanks!

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You can use Ajax functionality to show a list of filtered users. You can also follow the approach that you mentioned above like a separate filter view or a popup.

I would prefer the Ajax approach.

You can use JQuery to do this kind of things very easily. You can refer to this link for more information