Question

In my web app. i want to setup a route like this:

/document/quality/index /document/general/index  /document/quality/detail/[id] /document/general/detail/[id] 

As you can see i have two kind of documents: general and quality. What is the best way to set this up in my global.asax file? I tried the following, but i don’t get it work:

routes.MapRoute(     'QualityDocument',     'Document/Quality/{action}/{id}',     new { controller = 'Document', action='Index', id= ''}     );  routes.MapRoute(     'GeneralDocument',     'Document/General/{action}/{id}',     new { controller = 'Document', action = 'Index', id = '' }     );  routes.MapRoute(     'Default',                                              // Route name     '{controller}/{action}/{id}',                           // URL with parameters     new { controller = 'Home', action = 'Index', id = '' }  // Parameter defaults ); 

EDIT

I have it working right now, but when i change the action=” in my asax file it doesn’t work anymore:

Global.asax:

routes.MapRoute(     'GeneralDocument',     'Document/General/{action}/{id}',     new { controller = 'Document', action = 'blaat', id = '' }     ); 

DocumentController:

public void blaat(int? id) {     Response.Write('algemeen');     // return View(); } 

Now i get the Resource not found error. But when I use index instead of blaat it is working. How come?

Answer 1

you should be able to just prefix the route with ‘Document’ and then set the defaults like:

 routes.MapRoute('DocumentView',                  'Document/{controller}/{action}/{id}',                  new { controller = 'General', action='Index', id = ''  }             ); 

remember with routing you want to be completely defining! when setting out the route. dont let those unexpected routes through 😀

Check out Scott Hanselman presentation at MIX very funny and your pick up some great tips!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Mix09FirstHalfRollupAndSessionVideos.aspx