Kendo MVC Razor Grid Custom Command does not have Action Definition - razor

Question

I am new to Kendo and are trying to add a custom command to a grid.
I have been going over example pages, StackOverflow, and Telerik's site and found multiple examples that has the following:
columns.Command(command =>
{
command.Custom("Details").Text("Show Details").Action("Details", "Billing");
});
When I try to use this, I get the following error:
'GridCustomActionCommandBuilder' does not contain a
definition for 'Action' and the best extension method overload
'UrlHelperExtensions.Action(IUrlHelper, string, object)' requires a
receiver of type 'IUrlHelper'
I then tried this example from telerik:
columns.Template(#<text>#Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Home", new { id = item.ProductID })</text>);
But get this error:
Cannot convert lambda expression to type 'string' because it is not a
delegate type
Just to confirm what is causing the error, then took out the ActionLink and used only this:
columns.Template(#<text>
<div>help me!!</div>
</text>);
and got the same error:
The total code snippet looks like this:
#(Html.Kendo().Grid<OrganisationEmployeesViewModel>()
.Name("grid")
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(p => p.EmployeeID).Visible(false);
columns.Template(#<text>
<div>help me!!</div>
</text>);
})
.Pageable()
.Sortable()
.Scrollable()
.Filterable()
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "height:550px;" })
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Ajax()
.PageSize(20)
.Read(read => read.Action("Employees_Read", "Organisations"))
)
.Deferred()
)
I am using existing samples but don't know what is wrong.

Answer 1

I found a way for this to work:
columns.Template("<a href='" +
Url.Action("ControllerAction", "Controller") +
"?Parameter=#= RecID #'" +
">DisplayText</a>");
This can also be applied to a bound column like this:
columns.Bound(p => p.Name).ClientTemplate("<a href = '" +
Url.Action("Details", "Employees") +
"/#= EmployeeID #'" +
">#=Name#</a>");
And should you want to have a Custom Toolbar Action on the Kendo Grid:
I am using the standard bootstrap classes to apply defaults:
.ToolBar(t => t.ClientTemplate("<a class='k-button k-button-icontext k-grid-add' href='" +
Url.Action("OrganisationCreate", "Employees", new { OrganisationId = Model.OrganisationID }) +
"'><span class='k-icon k-add'></span>Add new Employee</a>") )