Question

My Index action for a controller takes a page parameter like so:

/Organizations/Index?page=5

Which is used to limit the number of objects displayed. If they choose to “edit” one of those objects after they are finished I would like to return with the same values as before they began editing (e.g. be on the same “page” of the list).

My edit url ends up looking like this:

/Organizations/Edit/487

How do I persist the original page value?

Thanks!

Answer 1

To persist data between calls you can use

• Session state,
• a hidden field,
• render it into the links as a query string,
• use a cookie or
• TempData (which is Session state kept only for the next call).

If you want to access the route data, you can use the controller context:

ControllerContext.RouteData.Values["action"];

“action” is the name of the route parameter.