Cannot call other action

Question

I'm studying ASP MVC, and developping SportsStore (Create/Edit feature). When Create a product, Create action will view a Edit view, but when press Sudmit, it call action Create (Post), althrough I will set it call Edit action:

<% using (Html.BeginForm("Edit", "Admin", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype="multipart/form-data" }))
   {%>
    <%--<%= Html.ValidationSummary() %>--%>
    <%--<%= Html.Hidden("ProductID") %>--%>

    <p>Name: <%= Html.TextBox("Name")%>
        <div><%= Html.ValidationMessage("Name")%></div>
    </p>
    <p>Description: <%= Html.TextArea("Description", null, 4, 20, null)%>
        <div><%= Html.ValidationMessage("Description")%></div>
    </p>
    <p>Price: <%= Html.TextBox("Price")%>
        <div><%= Html.ValidationMessage("Price")%></div>
    </p>
    <p>Category: <%= Html.TextBox("Category")%>
        <div><%= Html.ValidationMessage("Category")%></div>
    </p>
    <p>
        Image: 
        <% if (Model.ImageData == null)
           { %>
            None
        <% }
           else
           { %>
            <img src= "<%= Url.Action("GetImage", "Products", new {Model.ProductID}) %>" />
        <% } %>
        <div>Upload new image: <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /></div>
    </p>
    <input type="submit" value="Save" /> 
    <%= Html.ActionLink("Cancel and return to list", "Index")%>

<% } %>

Please help me fix it

Answer 1

The code you have seems reasonable if you want it to post back to the Edit action. Your question is a bit confusing, but I'm going to assume that you want to reuse the view and have it post back to Create when rendered from Create and Edit when rendered from Edit. The easiest way is to simply omit the parameters from the BeginForm call. This will cause the form action to be set to the current controller and action, which would give you what you seem to want. An alternative would be to develop templates (display/editor) for the model but have separate views for Create/Edit that simply render the template Html.EditorFor( m => m, "ProductTemplate" ). This would allow you to customize the view -- perhaps the Create view requires you to upload an image? -- yet still reuse most of the code.