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Raihan Ridoy
Raihan Ridoy

Reputation: 788

How to retrieve an actionlink text in a controller?

I have a list of actionlink in my navbar like this

  • @Html.ActionLink("Customer Profile", "Index", "Profile")
  • @Html.ActionLink("Supplier Profile", "Index", "Profile")
  • @Html.ActionLink("Publisher Profile", "Index", "Profile")

    • now i need to retrieve the link text in my controller to allocate some value in a property by comparing the value of the link text like this

     [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        Profile profile = new Profile();
        if(linktext=="Customer Profile")
        {
            profile.cust_supply_cat_id = 1;
        }
        else if (linktext == "Supplier Profile")
        {
            profile.cust_supply_cat_id = 2;
        }
        else if (linktext == "Publisher Profile")
        {
            profile.cust_supply_cat_id = 3;
        }

        return View(profile);

    }

    How can i do it?

    or if you get the idea what are the possible ways to do that??

    Upvotes: 0

    Views: 838

    Answers (2)

    Fakhar Ahmad Rasul
    Fakhar Ahmad Rasul

    Reputation: 1691

    you can send a value from Html.ActionLink like:-

    @Html.ActionLink("Customer Profile", "Index", "Profile", new { linktext: "Customer Profile", null })

    then receive the value in controller as a argument to a parameter like:-

    [HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index(string linktext)
{
    //your code
}

    Upvotes: 1

    Michael Bakker
    Michael Bakker

    Reputation: 149

    You could add a parameter to the Index function. E.g:

    public ActionResult Index(int id).

    Then add a parameter value to your ActionLinks. E.g:

    @Html.ActionLink("Publisher Profile", "Index", "Profile", new {id = 1}, null)

    Hope this works for you.

    Upvotes: 1

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