Question

I am trying to create a search form in my MVC application in View 1. The form was working very well when I used to submit the form to same page (View1). That way I can have two ActionResults – one of which accepts HttpPost requests. Everything is cool here

Now things have become slighly complex and I wish to separate the views. So in View1 there is a form and I wanted the results to be displayed in View2. So how do I call ActionResult of View2 from a form in View1?

In short – User enters keyword in View1. Hits Enter. Form in View 1 calls View2. ActionResults in View2 calls some logic to search and return View2 as the view and then I can display the results.

I tried some basic things like action=”/View2″ but I was pretty sure it would fail. It says ‘the resource cannot be found’. Is it even possible to do this? Kindly advice.

*UPDATE*

It can be solved as answered below.

use Html.BeginForm(Name of the ActionResult,Name of the controller)

Answer 1

You need to specify the URL of the other action in the form, preferably by calling the Html.Form("ActionName", "ControllerName") helper.