how to pass data from one view to another

Question

I want to pass object data from one view to another on click of button. I am calling the action to load the second view via ajax. In the controller action I am trying to pass object data to view. But the view is not rendered. How can I achieve the scenario of passing data from one view and populating it to the controls of other view?

Answer 1

I want to pass object data from one view to another on click of button

When in any Action or ActionResult you have

return RedirectToAction("controllerName","viewname","parameters")

so the Action Method instead of returning a view, this will redirect to another view Action method and that view will be rendered.

Answer 2

You need to send the data from one view to another in form of query string or post parameters to an action.

Ex:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult PassData(string dataFromView1)
{

 return View("View2", dataFromView1);
}

Note: Here i used a single string data in a parameter. If your View1 has more data/complex data structure, better to use ViewModel class and pass that to your intermediate controller.

Answer 3

I want to pass object data from one view to another on click of button

You need to pass View in HttpPost method. Look at this code.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult YourActionName(Model model)
{
  return View("AnotherActionName", model);
}

Or you can use RedirectToAction .