How to refresh partialview with Ajax call in ASP.NET MVC?

Question

I've a partial view, I'm sending two parameters and next trying to refresh the partial view div using $("#div").html(result). Data is correctly sent to partial view using mvc action and I see in console partial view is getting updated by the ajax call. Everything works as expected but the partial view in mainview never gets updated or refreshed. So I always see SubscriptionID and EntityOrganizationID as initialized first time i.e 0.

This is the partialview in main.cshtml

<div id="myPartialViewDiv">
     @Html.Partial("_SubmissionCommentActions", new SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel());
</div>

Here is my ajax call from java script function -- called after button clicked

$.ajax({
            url: '/Submission/SubmissionHeaderDetails',
            type: 'POST',
            async: false,
            dataType: 'html',
            data: { id: SubmissionID, entityOrgID: EntityOrganizationID, tab:0 },
            success: function (result) {
                console.log('Success... : ' + result);
            }
        }).done(function (response) {
            alert('refore replacing partial view with latest data');
            $("#myPartialViewDiv").html(result);
        });

This is my Action -

[HttpPost]
    public ActionResult SubmissionHeaderDetails(int? id, int? entityOrgID, SubmissionTabEnum tab = SubmissionTabEnum.None)
    {
        SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel newModel = new SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel();
        newModel.SubmissionID = (int)id;
        newModel.EntityOrganizationID = (int)entityOrgID;

        return PartialView("_SubmissionCommentActions", newModel);
    }

And this is my partial view _SubmissionCommentActions.cshtml

@model XYZ.Domain.Model.Submission.SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel

<script>
    $(function () { $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip();})
</script>

    @{
        // I get correct SubmissionHeaderID, EntityOrganizationID values every time using ajax call but they never gets refreshed inside "headerCommentModal" div
        var SubmissionHeaderID = 0;
        int EntityOrganizationID = 0;
        if (Model != null){
            SubmissionHeaderID = Model.SubmissionID;
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("SubmissionHeaderID : " + SubmissionHeaderID);
        }
        if (Model.EntityOrganizationID != null){
            EntityOrganizationID = (int)Model.EntityOrganizationID;
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("EntityOrganizationID : " + EntityOrganizationID);
        }
        Model.SubmissionID = SubmissionHeaderID;
        Model.EntityOrganizationID = EntityOrganizationID;
    }
    
    @Html.Hidden("SubmissionHeaderID", SubmissionHeaderID, new { data_ng_model = "model.SubmissionHeaderID" })
    
    @Html.JsonDataSourceVariable("securitygroupsusers", "SecurityGroupsUsersAccessRight", "Utility", Model.EntityOrganizationID.GetValueOrDefault())
    
    <!-- _SubmissionHeaderActions  start  -->
    <div class="stayenabledonclose">
        <div class="form-horizontal" ng-controller="submissionHeaderActionsController">
            <div id="headerCommentModal" class="modal fade" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="submissionComment-title" style="padding-right:19px;">
                <div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
                    <div id="adcmodal" class="modal-content">
                        <div id="adcmodal" class="modal-header col-nopadding ">
                            <h3 class="modal-title" id="submissionComment-title">Submission Comment | SubmissionID: @Model.SubmissionID | EntityOrganizationID : @Model.EntityOrganizationID</h3>
                            <button type="button" class="close pull-right" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">
                                <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fas fa-times"></i></span>
                            </button>
                        </div>
                        <div class="modal-body submissioncomment-modal-body">
                            <div class="row form-group spacer">
                                <div class="col-md-12">
                                    <div class="col-md-12">
                                        @Html.Label("Recipients")
                                        <select id="commentrecipients" class="dirtyignore" kendo-multi-select k-options="securitygroupsusersSelectOptions()" k-ng-model="initSecurityGroupsUsers()"></select>
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                            </div>
    
                            @Html.Hidden("SubmissionHeaderID", SubmissionHeaderID)
                            <div class="row form-group spacer">
                                <div class="col-md-12">
                                    <div class="col-md-12">
                                        @Html.Label("Comment (will be sent to the recipients via email)")
                                        @Html.TextArea("Comment", "", new { @class = "form-control dirtyignore", rows = "2", maxlength = "1000", data_ng_model = "model.comment" })
                                    </div>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- _SubmissionHeaderActions  end  -->
    
    @using (Html.RequiredScripts())
    {
        @Html.RequirePageScript("Shared", "SubmissionHeaderActions")
    }

Here is SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel class

namespace XYZ.Domain.Model.Submission
{
    [DataContract]
    public class SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel
    {
        //fields will be used to determine display of action items
        [DataMember]
        public bool CanReassign { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanEditComments { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanClone { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanTransfer { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanCreateNew { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public int SubmissionID { get; set; }

        //export/print actions are under a sub menu in the header

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanExport { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanExportPdf { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanExportCsv { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanPrint { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanGetArchive { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool CanDeleteArchive { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public bool ShowSubMenu => CanExportCsv || CanExportPdf || CanPrint || CanGetArchive || CanDeleteArchive;

        [DataMember]
        public int? ArchiveStatusTypeID { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public int SubmissionStatusTypeID { get; set; }

        public int? EntityOrganizationID { get; set; }

    }
}

Answer 1

Maybe it is a good idea to refined the action too:

public ActionResult SubmissionHeaderDetails(SubmissionHeaderActionViewModel 
       model)
    {
    
        return PartialView("_SubmissionCommentActions", model);
    }

And fix your ajax by moving result from done to success:

$.ajax({
            url: '/Submission/SubmissionHeaderDetails',
            type: 'POST',
            data: { SubmissionID : SubmissionID, 
                    EntityOrganizationID: EntityOrganizationID, 
                   tab:0 },
            success: function (result) {
            $("#myPartialViewDiv").html(result);
            },
            error: function (xhr, exception) {
                ...error code
                return false;
            }
        });