ASP.NET MVC2 - Return to previous View from a controller action

Question

How can I return to the "previous" view from an action in the controller ?

I have an action that can be reached from 2 different views.

The action can result in 2 ways:

Success - and then I return to 3rd different view Failure - and then I want to return to the previous view (one of the 2) - having the same (old) model data with a TempData["Message"] containing the error.

I want to return to the view that posted to this action - How can I achieve this behavior ?

Victor Haydin · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-03 20:32:22Z

1

You can pass previous view name as a parameter to your action.

public ActionResult Edit(DataObject model, string prevAction)
{
    if (model.IsValid)
    {
        return View("SomeView");
    }
    else
    {
        return RedirectToAction(prevAction, new { data = model });
    }
}

edited Jan 3, 2011 at 20:32

answered Jan 3, 2011 at 20:05

Victor Haydin

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Dani Over a year ago

But need to build the model again before I return the View("LastViewName",Model ?)

Victor Haydin Over a year ago

You can use RedirectToAction ;)

Dani Over a year ago

can't - as this method returns a view (the "success" goes to a new view). I want in case of failure just to return to the previous view, with the previous data....

Dani Over a year ago

I Thought that there is an automatic mechanism to go to the previous page - like when validation fails... Your code should work and solve this issue, I will check it and also look a little more about the validation failure scenarios.

Austin M · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-03 20:07:47Z

0

You could have a query string variable that holds the location to where you would like to return.

Something like controller/action?returnUrl=original/route

answered Jan 3, 2011 at 20:07

Austin M

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