Question

I have a controller named Raportare that has two actions: ReportA and ReportB.
Both return an excel file based on the parameters supplied.

public ActionResult ReportA(int? month, int? year)
{
...
}
public ActionResult ReportB(int? month, int? year)
{
...
}

My global.asax has the following routing rules for this :

routes.MapRoute(
                "ReportA",
                "{Raportare}/{ReportA}/{month}/{year}",
                new { controller = "Raportare", action = "ReportA", month = UrlParameter.Optional, year = UrlParameter.Optional});

 routes.MapRoute(
                "ReportB",
                "{Raportare}/{ReportB}/{month}/{year}",
                new { controller = "Raportare", action = "ReportB", month = UrlParameter.Optional, year = UrlParameter.Optional }); 

However when I go mysite.com/Raportare/ReportB/5/2012 it’s returning the ReportA file.
It works fine if I go to mysite.com/Raportare/ReportB?month=5&year=2012.
Probably I’m doing something wrong in the routing rules but I can’t figure it out.

Answer 1

You don’t need to add a route for every action – they work like templates and the 3rd parameter is just default values.

routes.MapRoute(
  "reports",
  "Raportare/{action}/{month}/{year}",
  new {
    controller = "Raportare",
    action = "ReportA",
    month = UrlParameter.Optional,
    year = UrlParameter.Optional
  }
);

Put this before your default rule in Global.asax.cs, otherwise the default might match first.

Then mysite.com/Raportare/ReportB/5/2012 will invoke the ReportB action because it has been specified in the url.

mysite.com/Raportare will invoke ReportA, because it is the default action.