Redirection to a another page asp.net mvc

Question

I am facing a problem, that occurs when I want to redirect the user after the create page, to another page that is not the index page.

I have tried to create another view in the Client folder and then replace "index" by "success" the name of the new page for example.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Client client)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {

        db.Clients.Add(client);
        db.SaveChanges();
        return RedirectToAction("Index"); // Here is the problem

    }
}

I also try Redirect("~/Client/Success") but it doesn't work also.

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

You need to create not only view named "Success" (actually that isn't required at all), but an action named "Success" in your controller:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Client client)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {

        db.Clients.Add(client);
        db.SaveChanges();
        return RedirectToAction("Success");
    }
    return View(); //Looks like you've missed this line because it shouldn't have compiled if result isn't returned in all code branches.
}

public ActionResult Success(Client client)
{
    //...
    return View();//By default it will use name of the Action ("Success") as view name. You can specify different View if you need though.
}

But I wouldn't say it's a good idea to use redirect just to show the success result . You better create the Success view in the Client folder as you've done already (assuming your controller is named "ClientController") and then return View result instead of Redirect:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Client client)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        db.Clients.Add(client);
        db.SaveChanges();
        return View("Success");
    }
    return View(); //Looks like you've missed this line because it shouldn't have compiled if result isn't returned in all code branches.
}

Answer 2

This will work :

return RedirectToAction("Success","Client");

where Success is your action name and Client is your controller name

if you want to redirect to Success action in same controller then :

return RedirectToAction("Success");

Your action should look like this in ClientController :

public ActionResult Success()
{
  return View();
}

You are using :

return RedirectToAction("Index");

this will redirect you to Index actionresult in same controller .

Answer 3

Take a look at the overloads for that method . You're not redirecting to a URL , you're redirecting to an action . So this will redirect to the Index action on the current controller:

return RedirectToAction("Index");

Or this will redirect to the Success action on the Client controller:

return RedirectToAction("Success", "Client");

Answer 4

You can try a Ajax resquest like that :

 $('#myButton').click(function () {
            var url = '/MyControllerName/MyPage';
            var $Param = $('#SomeParam').val();     
            $.ajax({
                url: url,
                type: 'POST',
                cache: false,
                data: {
                   Param: $Param             
                }
            })