Multiple submits on MVC view when hidden value is needed for each - best practice?

Question

I've got a view with multiple submit buttons, and I don't know what the best way to handle this is. At the moment one of my controller actions looks like this:

[HttpPost]    
public ActionResult SaveAlbum(
    string saveButton,
    string createButton,
    string deleteButton,
    string showButton,
    string myHiddenValue)
{
    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(saveButton))
    {
        // do stuff
    }

    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(createButton))
    {
        // do stuff
    }

    // repeat for all buttons

    var viewModel = new MyViewModel(one, two, three);

    return View("Index", viewModel);
}

This looks pretty terrible. I'm assuming the best way would be to have a separate form for each submit button, which posts to different actions, but as it only posts what's inside the form and I need myHiddenValue for all of them I don't know what I should do. Should I use multiple hidden values instead? The hidden value is a comma separated list of values for all the checked checkboxes (added with jQuery).

check this - http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=705 — Systematix Infotech, Jun 12 '14 at 08:34
Systematix Infotech - that is exactly what I have done above. — Ingen Speciell, Jun 12 '14 at 11:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:10

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Ideally all your submits should go to individual Action methods on controller.

[Update] A quick search on stackoverflow gives following links:

edited May 23 '17 at 10:10

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answered Jun 12 '14 at 08:28

Darshan Joshi

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Yes, like I said that's what I assume but I don't know what to do when I need the hidden value for each of them. I updated the title of my question so it's clearer. – Ingen Speciell Jun 12 '14 at 08:31
Ideally, any submit action on the form should submit entire form. So you should get it. I don't have any working sample for the same though. – Darshan Joshi Jun 12 '14 at 08:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '14 at 10:31

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It's easy

suppose you have two buttons

 <input type="button" name="btnSave"  value="Save"/>
 <input type="button" name="btnSave"  value="Update" />

your controller

  public ActionResult SaveAlbum(string btnSave)

if u click on Save, value of btnSave will be "Save" and if u click on Update button, value of btnSave at controller will be "Update". so give the save name to all your button but different values.

answered Jun 12 '14 at 10:31

chandresh patel

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This would still mean only one controller action and I'd have to check for the value of the button to know what code to run. – Ingen Speciell Jun 12 '14 at 11:14
you can redirect from controller to your desired action after checking the value. – chandresh patel Jun 12 '14 at 11:18
and if you want to redirect directly from view then you have to write script and change then action of your form. – chandresh patel Jun 12 '14 at 11:18

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '14 at 11:23

$('#btnUpdate').click(function(){
   e.preventDefault();
   $(form).attr("action", "Update");
   $(form).submit();
});

public ActionResult Update(string btnSave)

$('#btnSave').click(function(){
   e.preventDefault();
   $(form).attr("action", "Save");
   $(form).submit();
});

public ActionResult Save(string btnSave)

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