Question

I have a situation where i have to take input(form) from user. After continue button is pressed next view page is displayed. But after continue is pressed i don’t want to store the model in the DB. I have to display some details(combining some tables) according to input given by the user earlier and again get some data from user. Only then i want to store the model in the respective tables.
How can i perform this? I tried getting Model from user and passing to the function that generates next page. Is this is way to do it? or there is other way around?

Answer 1

Store the model submitted by the first form in session.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ContinueForm1(Model1 model1)
{
    if(ModelState.IsValid)
    {
       Session["Model1"] = model1;

       return View("Form2");
    }

    return View();
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ContinueForm2(Model2 model2)
{
     if(ModelState.IsValid)
     {
        ... model2 is already here, get the model1 from session
        ... and save to datatbase finally return a different view or redirect to some
        ... other action
     }

     return View();
}