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MadDev
MadDev

Reputation: 1150

How to hide hyperlinks in Partial View depending on value returned from Controller

I have these 2 lines in the .cshtml:

<li><a href="@Url.Action("GetAllVehicleLocations", "VehicleReporting", new { @class = "page-scroll" })">All Vehicle Locations</a></li>

<li><a href="@Url.Action("GetToBeDoneVehicles", "VehicleReporting", new { @class = "page-scroll" })">To Be Done Vehicles</a></li>

I want to hide these hyperlinks depending on a value returned from the Controller. The value is a ClientID. If ClientID = 1 then hide the links else leave them visible.

I have tried various different implementations, below being my last.

.cshtml:

if (@Html.Action("GetSelectedClientID", "VehicleReporting") != 1)
{
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetAllVehicleLocations", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">All Vehicle Locations</a></li>
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetToBeDoneVehicles", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">To Be Done Vehicles</a></li>
}

Controller:

[Authorize]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult GetSelectedClientID()
{
   selectedClientId = HelperMethods.GetClientId();
   return PartialView(selectedClientId);
}

Any help is appreciated. Please note that I'm new to MVC!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (2)

Ehsan Sajjad
Ehsan Sajjad

Reputation: 62488

Your controller should return plain text in that case or you could return json and use an ajax call for that, but the following should keep you going:

[Authorize]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult GetSelectedClientID()
{
   var selectedClientId = HelperMethods.GetClientId().ToString();
   return Content(selectedClientId);
}

and now in view you can check for the returned string value:

@if(Html.Action("GetSelectedClientID", "VehicleReporting").ToString() != "1")
{
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetAllVehicleLocations", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">All Vehicle Locations</a></li>
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetToBeDoneVehicles", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">To Be Done Vehicles</a></li>
}

Upvotes: 1

Federico Dipuma
Federico Dipuma

Reputation: 18265

If I understand correctly you want to conditionally hide parts of your view depending on a value.

You could use ViewData dictionary in your main action:

[Authorize]
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult MyAction()
{
   ViewData["selectedClientId"] = HelperMethods.GetClientId();
   return View();
}

And in your view check its value this way:

@if (ViewData["selectedClientId"] != 1)
{
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetAllVehicleLocations", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">All Vehicle Locations</a></li>
   <li><a href="@Url.Action("GetToBeDoneVehicles", "VehicleReporting", new {@class = "page-scroll"})">To Be Done Vehicles</a></li>
}

Upvotes: 0

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