Question

Not getting updates in MVC View following a post method

Hi,

Here’s my controller code:

public ActionResult Search()
{
    ForecastManagementViewModel viewModel = new ForecastManagementViewModel();
    viewModel.JobDate = System.DateTime.Now;

    return View(viewModel);
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Search(ForecastManagementViewModelPost model)
{
    ForecastManagementViewModel viewModel = new ForecastManagementViewModel();
    viewModel.JobDate = model.JobDate.AddDays(20);
    return View(viewModel);
}

The problem is that when the new view is returned it doesn’t contain the updated date value. (By the way, there’s a jquery EditorTemplate behind this DateTime type).

Here’s a bit of the view code:

<% using (Html.BeginForm())
      { %>
<fieldset>

    <legend>Search Criteria</legend>

    <div class="divFirstColumn">
        <div><%= Html.LabelFor(m => m.JobDate) %></div>
        <%= Html.EditorFor(m => m.JobDate) %>
    </div>    

</fieldset>

 <% } %>   

Any ideas where I might be going wrong. I’m using MVC2 under Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

Cheers,

J Dubs.

Answer 1

Could be a form mismatch issue… could you check the ID on the client side by doing view source to make sure it will properly hook up to the model when posting? Also, I would check, using a breakpoint in the post, the form collection to see what the key is on the server-side also. THe form collection is available as a property of the controller too.