How redirect to different view of same controller class?

Question

I have a ActionMethod which I called on Submit button public Submit ActionResult(Employee emp) { emp object has all data like name,emailid, mobileNo etc --calling business layer to insert data in database i want to return a view here which is of same controller class I tried it in following ways return view("ViewName",emp); in this case i dont have any action name and I redirected to view successfully but the problem is when I refresh that view it hits to Submits and again entry is made in database. return RedirectToAction("ActionName",ViewName,emp); here i have action which redirects to same view i.e "ViewName" but in this case it fails to redirect } Thanks.

Laxmidhar Sahoo · Answer

There are six overloading function of RedirectToAction RedirectToAction(String) Redirects to the specified action using the action name. RedirectToAction(String, Object) Redirects to the specified action using the action name and route values. RedirectToAction(String, String) Redirects to the specified action using the action name and controller name. RedirectToAction(String, RouteValue Dictionary) Redirects to the specified action using the action name and route dictionary. RedirectToAction(String, String, Object) Redirects to the specified action using the action name, controller name, and route dictionary. RedirectToAction(String, String, RouteValueDictionary) Redirects to the specified action using the action name, controller name, and route values. Bellow is the link for more details https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.controllerbase.redirecttoaction?view=aspnetcore-2.2

Amit Kumar · Answer

Hi, Many way to do this. return RedirectToAction( "Index" ,Testing); or return RedirectToAction( "Testing2" , new {id= "pijush" }); or return RedirectToAction( "NotAuthorized" );

Ahmed Abdi · Answer

Hello! Which view you going to return? Does the action method that return the view accept the empId as parameter? then if answer is yes you can use RedirectToAction return RedirectToAction( "ActionName" , new {empId = emp.EmpId});

Amit Kumar · Answer

Yes, You can do that which I have posted my answer. Try it it will work.

Karan Thakkar · Answer

Thanks for your reply. No Ahmed it doesn;t accepts parameter. and the view I want to redirect is verify "Employee".