How To call An Action In Umbraco Controller?

Question

I created an Umbraco DocumentType with the alias Personal and created a controller that inherits

Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController

I added two Actions, one is the default action and the other is called Test.

How can I fire the Test Action from the Personal controller?

public class PersonalController : Umbraco.Web.Mvc.RenderMvcController
{
    // GET: Personal
    public override ActionResult Index(RenderModel model)
    {
        return base.Index(model);
    }

    public String Test(RenderModel model)
    {
        return "fff";
    }
}

When I put the url like this: localHost/personal/test it shows:

No umbraco document matches the url '/test'.

Which is right, so how can I call it?

Answer 1

I would do it like this

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SubmitSearchForm(SearchViewModel model)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(model.SearchTerm))
        {
            model.SearchTerm = model.SearchTerm;
            model.SearchGroups = GetSearchGroups(model);
            model.SearchResults = _searchHelper.GetSearchResults(model, Request.Form.AllKeys);
        }
        return RenderSearchResults(model.SearchResults);
    }
    return null;
}

public ActionResult RenderSearchResults(SearchResultsModel model)
{
    return PartialView(PartialViewPath("_SearchResults"), model);
}

See this blog post for the full context behind where this code snippet came from.

http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-search-by-document-type-and-property-in-umbraco/