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jpo
jpo

Reputation: 4059

MVC3 Display search result on the current view (without any new view created)

I am pulling some data from a databse and displying it in a list like in this example. I want to implement a search on the top of the page to search the value of the data reurned on the page. This example creates a new view for the search page. Is it possible to implement a search on the current view without creating a new view for the search results.

I don't mind doing it with a new view, but I am just wondering

Upvotes: 0

Views: 646

Answers (1)

munkee
munkee

Reputation: 769

The view doesn't need to care about what you are doing in the background with the data. It simply displays whatever you are sending to it in a formatted pretty way. Because of this there is certainly nothing wrong with supplying a parameter in a search box and then pushing this to the controller when clicking a search button. The controller will then be doing the requests to your model or repo to filter the data culminating in a return of your view loaded with the data it has found, exactly as it would on your initial load (just now with less data than it did before). There should be no need to create a totally different view for this, the view is just your template for returned data.

Upvotes: 1

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