I'm looking for a way to know what link was pressed when a controller was called. My link is here in my view page:
<li id="tabFiles"><a href="~/Files" id="test">Files</a></li>
and my Files controller is here:
public ActionResult Index(string submit)
{
string s = submit;
return View();
}
I tried to pass in a string hoping it would be the id of the clicked link, but this only returns a null.
You should pass the id as query string:
<li id="tabFiles"><a href="~/Files/?id=test">Files</a></li>
public ActionResult Index(string id)
{
string s = id;
return View();
}
Or you may want to pass that in this form:
<li id="tabFiles"><a href="~/Files/test">Files</a></li>
The way you send parameters to the controller depends on how you have configured routing.
You can create custom action filter and set this on controller like this:
...
[CustomActionFilter]
public class FilesController : Controller
{
...
}
and on this custom filter you can get action name like this:
public class
CustomActionFilter : ActionFilterAttribute, IActionFilter
{
void IActionFilter.OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
// TODO: Add your acction filter's tasks here
// Log Action Filter Call
MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities();
ActionLog log = new ActionLog()
{
Controller = filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor.ControllerName,
Action = filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName + " (Logged By: Custom
Action Filter)",
IP = filterContext.HttpContext.Request.UserHostAddress,
DateTime = filterContext.HttpContext.Timestamp
};
storeDB.ActionLogs.Add(log);
storeDB.SaveChanges();
this.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
}
More details you can find here on Microsoft site or on this question.
