Question

i have a partial view in my website, shared among many pages, for searching functionality, consisting of:
from date
to date
file type
file name

now,the problem is, in some pages i dont want the file type to be included, in other pages i dont want the (from-to) date criteria to be included

what should i do? should i create a partial view for each functionality? or show/hide the criteria from within?

_Filters.cshtml

@model Entities.FilterOperations
<table width="85%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
    <tr>
        <td class="formtit">
            Start Date
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.StartDate, new { @class = "date" })
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formtit">
            End Date
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EndDate, new { @class = "date" })
        </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
        <td class="formtit">
            File Type
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FileType)
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="formtit">
            File Name
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FileName)
        </td>
    </tr> <tr>
        <td align="right">
            <input type="submit" value="Search" />
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Answer 1

Just add a few properties to your FilterOperations model like:

public bool RenderFileType {get; private set;}
public bool RenderDateTo {get; private set;}

With a new ctor:

public FilterOperations(bool renderFileType = true, bool renderDateTo = true) {
    RenderFileType = renderFileType;
    RenderDateTo = renderDateTo;
}

Now you can set conditions in your partial like so:

@if(Model.RenderFileType) {
<tr>
    <td>@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FileType)
    </td>
</tr>
}

Then in your view call your partial like so:

@Html.Partial("_Filters.cshtml", new FilterOperations(renderDateTo: false))