UmbracoForm: run action other than submit

Question

I am setting up a solution in umbraco using MVC seriously for the first time. I have managed to render a form using BeginUmbracoForm, and submit data, which works wonders.

My issue is, I want to implement a reset button, but since my data is in Session, I have to reset server side.

View:

@using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<Site1.Controllers.SearchCriteriaSurfaceController>("Search"))
{
    @*Form here*@
    @Html.ActionLink("Reset criterias", "Reset", "SearchCriteriaSurface", new {}, null)
    <input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" value="Search now" />
}

Controller:

public class SearchCriteriaSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Search(SearchParams model)
        {
            SearchParams.Params = model;
            ViewBag.HasSought = true;
            return CurrentUmbracoPage();
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Reset()
        {
            SearchParams.ResetParams();
            return CurrentUmbracoPage();
        }
    }

On click, I then get redirected to /umbraco/Surface/SearchCriteriaSurface/Reset which is a resource that cannot be found.

Any idea how I go about reloading the page after hitting the reset button?

Thanks for your time.

You have an actionlink, which just renders an anchor. When clicking the anchor, it is always a [HttpGet], so the [HttpPost] shouldnt be there. — devqon

Digbyswift Digbyswift · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-28T09:10:39

You have two options (certainly more but I can't be bothered to think of them):

1 You can submit using two different buttons

<button type="submit" name="SubmitAction" value="Reset">Reset</button>
<button type="submit" name="SubmitAction" value="Submit">Submit</button>

In your view model you would just need a 'SubmitAction' property and in the action you could test for this value. See here for more detail on the discussion: How do you handle multiple submit buttons in ASP.NET MVC Framework?

2 Use a separate form

You could just have a separate form (hidden) entirely and use javascript to trigger the submittal of the form when you click on the "Reset" anchor.

UmbracoForm: run action other than submit

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