Question

I’m trying to figure out a trivial creation of a hyperlink (either through using an Html.ActionLink or plain hyperlink markup) to call a certain controller action and pass in a userId

In have a controller with an Index action. I have a hyperlink in another unrelated view where I need to all that controller’s index action and pass in a userId which is param in the action method.

Update:

Html.ActionLink("Test Something", "Index", "Tests", new { @userId = @Model.User.UserId }, null)

that is an example of what I tried. Problem is, it’s not showing Tests/ in the url when I moue over the url during runtime

Answer 1

You could use the ActionLink helper from any view anywhere in the application:

@Html.ActionLink(
    "call index",            // linkText
    "index",                 // action
    "home",                  // controller
    new { userid = "123" },  // routeValue
    null                     // htmlAttributes
)

Assuming default routes this should generate:

<a href="/?userid=123">call index</a>