This one seems painfully obvious to me, but for some reason I can't get it working the way I want it to. Perhaps it isn't possible the way I am doing it, but that seems unlikely. This question may be somewhat related: [ASP.NET MVC Model Binding Related Entities on Same Page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274855/asp-net-mvc-model-binding-related-entities-on-same-page).

I have an EditorTemplate to edit an entity with multiple related entity references. When the editor is rendered the user is given a drop down list to select related entities from, with the drop down list returning an ID as its value.

```
<%=Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Entity.ID, ...)%>

```

When the request is sent the form value is named as expected: "Entity.ID", however my strongly typed Model defined as an action parameter doesn't have Entity.ID populated with the value passed in the request. 

```
public ActionResult AddEntity(EntityWithChildEntities entityWithChildEntities) { }

```

I tried fiddling around with the Bind() attribute and specified `Bind(Include = "Entity.ID")` on the entityWithChildEntities, but that doesn't seem to work. I also tried `Bind(Include = "Entity")`, but that resulted in the ModelBinder attempting to bind a full "Entity" definition (not surprisingly). 

Is there any way to get the default model binder to fill the child entity ID or will I need to add action parameters for each child entity's ID and then manually copy the values into the model definition?