How do you handle multiple submit buttons in ASP.NET MVC Framework?

Question

Is there some easy way to handle multiple submit buttons from the same form? For example:

<% Html.BeginForm(\"MyAction\", \"MyController\", FormMethod.Pos         


        

Answer 1

I've tried to make a synthesis of all solutions and created a [ButtenHandler] attribute that makes it easy to handle multiple buttons on a form.

I've described it on CodeProject Multiple parameterized (localizable) form buttons in ASP.NET MVC.

To handle the simple case of this button:

Add Department

You'll have something like the following action method:

[ButtonHandler()]
public ActionResult AddDepartment(Company model)
{
    model.Departments.Add(new Department());
    return View(model);
}

Notice how the name of the button matches the name of the action method. The article also describes how to have buttons with values and buttons with indexes.