Question

Strait to the details…

I’m working on a personal project basically it’s a task list. Anyways; I managed to get the standard Add, Edit, Delete a task functionality going good; now I’m stuck on something that I know must be very simple. I would like for users to be able to accept a task from the details page, now I could easily put that option in a drop down list and allow the user to select it and then save; BUT i would like to just provide a link that they can click “Accept Task” that link then goes to my controller action and pulls the task then updates the TaskStatus field.

This is my controller action

        //
    // TaskStatus Updates
    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post), Authorize]
    public ActionResult AcceptTask(int id)
      {
        Task task = taskRepository.GetTask(id);

        try
        {
            task.TaskStatus = "Accepted";
            taskRepository.Save();
            return RedirectToAction("Details", new { id = task.TaskId });
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {

            throw;
        }

    }

So now how do I call this action from within my “Details” view?

Answer 1

A small form containing a button that posts back to the AcceptTask action would work. It could even be an AJAX form, if you wanted.

<% using (Html.BeginForm("accepttask","task",new { id = Model.TaskId })) { %>
    <input type="submit" value="Accept Task" />
<% } %>