Creating a ASP.Net MVC route with just forward slashes

Question

I have a action in a controller that looks like this

public ActionResult Transactions(string type) {}

To access this controller and pass in a type property value I have to type

www.mysite/controller/transactions?type=sometype

but what I want is to pass something like this

www.mysite.com/controller/transactions/sometype

So I create a route config param in the RouteConfig.cs file like this

routes.MapRoute(
   name: "TransactionRoute",
   url: "user/transactions/{type}",
   defaults: new { controller = "user", action = "transactions", type = "made" },
   constraints: new { title = @"^[A-Za-z]+$" }
);

but now if I pass a url like this

www.mysite.com/controller/transactions/made

the value of the string type in the action is null

Am I allowed to do this or did I do something wrong?

Here is my routeconfig.cs file

 public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}"); routes.MapRoute( name: "TransactionRoute", url: "user/transactions/{type}", defaults: new { controller = "user", action = "transactions", type = "made" }, constraints: new { title = @ "^[A-Za-z]+$" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "RateRoute", url: "rate/event/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "rate", action = "event" }, constraints: new { id = @ "\\d+" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "ReviewRoute", url: "rate/review/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "rate", action = "review" }, constraints: new { id = @ "\\d+" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "SpaceCleanRoute", url: "space/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "space", action = "index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }, constraints: new { id = @ "\\d+" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "SpacePendingRoute", url: "space/{id}/{pending}", defaults: new { controller = "space", action = "index", pending = UrlParameter.Optional }, constraints: new { id = @ "\\d+" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "PublicSpaceRoute", url: "space/public/{title}", defaults: new { controller = "space", action = "public" }, constraints: new { title = @ "^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$" } ); routes.MapRoute( name: "Default", url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } ); } 

Answer 1

www.mysite.com/user/transactions/sometype should match for the TransactionRoute .

Also I see no need for the title constraint based on the route template.

Remove the title constraint

routes.MapRoute(
   name: "TransactionRoute",
   url: "user/transactions/{type}",
   defaults: new { controller = "user", action = "transactions", type = "made" }   
);