get list of decision for a specific meetingtitle using linq asp.net - sql

Question

I have a database table. What I want is to get data using group by clause as I have used in below code.
Note that Decision is another table. now I want that all the decisions related to a specific Meeting Title should be shown in list.like
meetingtitle1=decision1,decison2,decison3
meetingtitle2=decision1,decison2
but below code returns only one decisiontitle.
public List<NewMeetings> GetAllMeetings()
{
var xyz = (from m in DB.MeetingAgenda
//join mp in Meeting on m.MeetingId equals mp.MeetingId
//where m.MeetingId == 2
group m by new { m.Meeting.MeetingTitle } into grp
select new NewMeetings
{
// meetingid = grp.Key.MeetingId,
meetingtitle = grp.Key.MeetingTitle,
decision = grp.Select(x => x.Decision.DecisionTitle).FirstOrDefault(),
total = grp.Count()
}).ToList();
List<NewMeetings> list = xyz.ToList();
return list;
}
public class NewMeetings
{
public int meetingid;
public string meetingtitle;
public string decision;
public int total;
}
Can somebody please tell me how to return a list of decisions to a specific Meetingtitle?

Answer 1

You are doing a FirstOrDefault on the list of decisions which obviously means you are only getting a single value. Instead you can join them all together into one longer string (separated by commas as you indicated in the question) by changing this line:
decision = grp.Select(x => x.Decision.DecisionTitle).FirstOrDefault(),
To this:
decision = string.Join(",", grp.Select(x => x.Decision.DecisionTitle)),
However, as the string.Join is not recognised by Linq to Entities, you need to do the string.Join after the data has been retrieved (i.e. after the ToList):
var xyz = (from m in DB.MeetingAgenda
group m by new { m.Meeting.MeetingTitle } into grp
select new
{
meetingtitle = grp.Key.MeetingTitle,
decisions = grp.Select(x => x.Decision.DecisionTitle),
total = grp.Count()
})
.ToList()
.Select(m => new NewMeetings
{
meetingtitle = m.meetingtitle,
decision = string.Join(",", m.decisions),
total = m.total
});