Question

I am struggling to call an action in a View to another View actioncontroller by passing to it a parameter.

This is the call from the View (I am in the index View and call the Account controller):

@Html.ActionLink("parameters", "MyParameters", "Account", new { email = "test" })

My runtime compiler is saying “cannot resolve action MyParameters” what’ s wrong with it ?

This is the function from my account controller:

public ActionResult MyParameters(string email) {}

This is my route:

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", 
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Paramètres par défaut
        );

    }

Cheers

Answer 1

Try:

@Html.ActionLink("parameters", "MyParameters", "Account", null, new { email = "test" })

The overload is:

@Html.ActionLink("linkText", "actionName", "controller", object routeValues, object HtmlAttributes)

routeValues is for adding a query string on the link. So for example, if you wanted to add id=1 to the link, your action link would look like this:

@Html.ActionLink("parameters", "MyParameters", "Account", new { @id = 1 }, new { email = "test" })

this would produce the following:

<a href="Account/MyParameters?id=1" email="test">parameters</a>

if you want email as a querystring you need to do this:

@Html.ActionLink("parameters", "MyParameters", "Account", new { @id = 1, @email = "test" }, null)

this will produce:

<a href="Account/MyParameters?id=1&email=test">parameters</a>