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MVC2 Partial view not rendering properly

Answer 1

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Your Controller's Action method is the reason for what is happening:

return PartialView("ProcessOrderPartial",dataModel);

You should be passing "ProcessOrder" instead of "ProcessOrderPartial". Your full View is never being called there.

Andrew Barber 2010-10-11 07:20:43

Hi Andrew, Thanks for your ans. Now I'm not stuck at the page and can work further. However, I need to bug you more as the solution actually lead to an another issue. Kindly view the 2nd ans to this for my second newby ques:

Ali Nahid 2010-10-11 23:20:38

Answer 2

A:

Scenario: For the whole "shopping cart process" operation I have only one view "Views/ShoppingCart/Index.aspx". I am calling "OrderProcess" action by declaring a form in index.aspx like below :

<%using (Html.BeginForm("ProcessOrder", "ShoppingCart", FormMethod.Post, new { @name="processorder"}))
{ %>

   <html bla bla><text box, drop down etc>
   <submit link (not button as I had to use an image), document.forms[0].submit in its  onclick event>
<%} %>

Now, when submit link is clicked the form is actually posted to, in other words the url is Mvc/ShoppingCart/ProcessOrder whereas I do not have any .aspx for this. I issue occured with the absolute paths in for js links. In Index.aspx I have used jquery and json for some other purpose which I linked like below:

In the head content place holder of Index.aspx
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script language="javascript">
     $(document).ready(function() {
         $('#ddlPostage').change(function() {
             $.getJSON('ShoppingCart/PostageChanged',
            { postage: $(this).find('option').filter(':selected').text(), transactionFee: $('#txtTransactionFee').val(), goodsTotal: $('#txtGoodsTotal').val() },
            function(data) {
                //alert(data);
                $('#txtOrderTotal').val(data.ordertotal);
                $('#txtPostagePrice').val(data.postageprice);
            }
        );

         });
     });
</script>

Thus when there's a url like "mvc/ShoppingCart/ProcessOrder", it's causing the above js script to fail. In my other action methods in the controller "ShoppingCartController" I managed to avoid this problem by return Redirect("~/ShoppingCart"); But for this case this way is not possible as I specifically need to return the invalid model for validation.

Questions: How to work around a problem/situation like this ? [May be I have got whole MVC concept wrong but hoping there always is a twiking].

Thanks in advance. (sorry for the wordy desc)

Ali Nahid 2010-10-11 23:39:57

Please do not post new questions as 'answers' to your first question. This is not a 'forum'. If you have new questions, post new questions.

Andrew Barber 2010-10-12 16:25:44

Answer 3

A:

I think I have found a soln to this. The problem was in the $.getJSON('ShoppingCart/PostageChanged'), which was not correct for obvious reason [I now feel the dumbest on this planet]. Changed it to $.getJSON('<%=Url.Action("PostageChanged","ShoppingCart") %>' and things seems to be working as it supposed to.

However, My question still remains (asking it in a different words):

as I have done

<%using (Html.BeginForm("ProcessOrder", "ShoppingCart", FormMethod.Post, new { @name="processorder"})) 
{ %>

So I understand the actionMethod is ProcessOrder ans so is the URL MVC/ShoppingCart/OrderProcess.

I have also tried doing this:

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

But is doesnt go to the desired actionmethod "OrderProcess" even though this method is the only one which is [HttpPost] in my controller. Also have tried creating an action method named "ShoppingCart" with [HttpPost], did not work either.

I ghosty thing is : I have an action method in my "HomeController" named Contact(Model) and another method Contact(). I have a view called Contact.aspx. The URL MVC/Contact works fine with a submit button in it with validation.

If this works then why not the ShoppingCart ???? :S

Ali Nahid 2010-10-12 00:42:04

Please do not post new questions as 'answers' to your first question. This is not a 'forum'. If you have new questions, post new questions.

Andrew Barber 2010-10-12 16:26:52

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