Question

I defined a link in my view:

@Html.ActionLink("Baxter", "Label", new { LabelName = "Baxter" })

I defined a route to catch this link like this:

        routes.MapRoute(
        "Search Affaire Only Label", // Route name
        "{controller}/Label/{LabelName}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Affaire", action = "SearchAffaires", LabelName = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

The link works but the url is not correctly segmented in the address bar as you can see below:

http://localhost:3817/Affaire/Label?LabelName=Baxter

I thought the url would be formatted like this:

http://localhost:3817/Affaire/Label/Baxter

What’s wrong? Any idea?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In your anchor you are passing Label as action name (the second argument of the ActionLink helper) whereas in your route definition you have defined the SearchAffaires action. So either fix your anchor by also including the controller:

@Html.ActionLink("Baxter", "SearchAffaires", new { LabelName = "Baxter" })

or more explicitly give the controller name as well to avoid any ambiguity:

@Html.ActionLink("Baxter", "SearchAffaires", "Affaire", new { LabelName = "Baxter" }, null)

or modify your route definition to use the Label action on the Affaire controller.