I am sorry for my post earlier. I am part of a 3 student development team and the model changed while I was working on it and I had an old version. I have since updated my model and I can get my dropdown to show the rooms that aren't occupied, but when I try to pass the data to the view, I seem to not be sending any data from the database. This is my controller [get] // GET: Residents/Create public ActionResult Create() { //Query database for IsOccupied flag// //Query for EastSouth Wing// var availRoom = db.Rooms .Where(s => s.IsOccupied == false) .Select(r => new { r.RoomNum, r.WingName, }); ViewBag.rooms = new SelectList(availRoom, dataValueField: "RoomNum", dataTextField: "RoomNum", dataGroupField: "WingName", selectedValue: null); return View(); } This is my current [post] create method: [HttpPost] [ValidateAntiForgeryToken] public ActionResult Create(ResidentIncomeModel residentIncomeModel, [Bind (Include ="RoomNum")] Room rooms) { Resident resident = new Resident { FirstMidName = residentIncomeModel.FirstMidName, LastName = residentIncomeModel.LastName, Birthdate = residentIncomeModel.Birthdate, ServiceBranch = (Models.ServiceType)residentIncomeModel.ServiceBranch, HasPTSD = residentIncomeModel.HasPTSD, InVetCourt = residentIncomeModel.InVetCourt, //RoomID = rooms.RoomID, Note = residentIncomeModel.Note }; Benefit benefit = new Benefit { Resident = resident, DisabilityPercentage = residentIncomeModel.DisabilityPercentage, SSI = residentIncomeModel.SSI, SSDI = residentIncomeModel.SSDI, FoodStamp = residentIncomeModel.FoodStamp, OtherDescription = residentIncomeModel.OtherDescription, Other = residentIncomeModel.Other, TotalBenefitAmount = residentIncomeModel.TotalBenefitAmount }; try { if (ModelState.IsValid)
