Question

I’m faced with the following problem :

I have a controller with lets say the following actions:

        [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            var viewModel = new IndexViewModel();

            return View("Index", viewModel);
        }



        [HttpPost]
        public void ExportToExcell(LeadsViewModel model)
        {
            // Export to excell code goes here
        }

The problem is the following:

The User enters on Index page with this URL : /Controller/Index

Then the user submits the form to Action ExportToExcel

Data is exported to Excel( file downloaded ) and it’s okay.

The URL becomes /Controller/ExportToExcell

Then when I am clicking “Enter” I am going To /Controller/ExportToExcell but with GET
and of course falling with Page Not Found, the question is how properly to Deal with this in MVC

Answer 1

Don’t use void as returned type of your post action, use an ActionResult

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult ExportToExcell(LeadsViewModel model)
{
   // Export to excell code goes here
   return RedirectToAction("Index");
}