Question

I would like to optimize my URL showed in web browsers. I know Routing is perfect for that but I don’t know if it is possible the way I want. I have a list of projects in a list. Each project have an ID, a name and a category. When navigating to the detail product page, the URL showed should be “/category/name”. I know I can pass the ID, the category and the name in the ActionLink and adjusting the routing in Global.asax. I already do that but I still have the ID which is concatenate to the rest of the URL. This is ugly.

Here is an example:

The ActionLink in my view:

@Html.ActionLink(@p.Name, "Detail", new { projectID = @p.ProjectID, category = @p.Category, name = @p.Name })

the Global.asax:

routes.MapRoute(null,
    "{category}/{name}",       
    new { controller = "Project", action = "Detail" }
);

The resulting URL:

As you can see, the projectID is always added to the end of the URL. How can I avoid that behaviour?

Thanks.

Answer 1

routes.MapRoute(null,
"{category}/{name}/{projectID}",       
new { controller = "Project", action = "Detail", projectID = UrlParameter.Optional }

);

will give you

/INDUSTRIE/Mailing/16

is that what you want ?