MVC4 - One form 2 submit buttons

Question

I followed the instructions on this post: Asp.net mvc3 razor with multiple submit buttons and here is my model:

public class AdminModel
{
  public string Command { get; set; }
}

My Controller

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Admin(List<AdminModel> model)
{
   string s = model.Command;
}

My View

@using (Html.BeginForm("Admin", "Account"))
{
  <input type="submit" name="Command" value="Deactivate"/>
  <input type="submit" name="Command" value="Delete"/>
}

When I post back, string "s" is always null.

I also tried the second answer (the one with 146 votes) in this forum post : How do you handle multiple submit buttons in ASP.NET MVC Framework? and thats also null. What am I doing wrong?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2423041/using-two-submit-buttons-inside-single-form/2426152#2426152 How about this? — takepara, Jun 25 '12 at 15:22

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '12 at 16:48

24

you need to take the value from their server side by the name of the button,

public ActionResult Admin(List<AdminModel> model,string Command)
{
   string s = Command;
}

answered Apr 20 '12 at 16:48

Jayantha Lal Sirisena

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whoa I thought I tried this, per the second forum on my post. I dont know what I did wrong that time. it works now thanks. – Vijay V Apr 20 '12 at 16:58
Note that when using ` – Cocowalla Feb 03 '13 at 16:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 20 '12 at 16:46

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From what I can see in the posted code, you aren't sending a list of models to your controller, just a single model instance. Try modifying the controller to this:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Admin(AdminModel model)
{
   string s = model.Command;
}

answered Apr 20 '12 at 16:46

Derek Risling

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My view was taking in a list of AdminModel :). – Vijay V Apr 20 '12 at 16:59

MVC4 - One form 2 submit buttons

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