Is it possible to have 2 views associated with one action?

Question

I have the following custom route

routes.MapRoute("custom", "Groups/{groupname}/{action}/{id}", new { controller = "Groups", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

This custom route is to achieve the following url schema

• Groups/pokerclub/members/ - list all the members of pokerclub group.
• Groups/pokerclub/members/bob - list member details of bob.

I tried the following but it doesnt work. it confuses asp .net mvc of which action to select.

public ActionResult Members(string groupName, string id)
    {
        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult Members(string groupName)
    {
        return View();
    }

There are two possible solutions that i could think of:

• Have different action name. e.g. Memberlist action and member action.
• Handle this in the view using simple if statement.

I very much want to maintain my url scheme. thus, as per my original question, how to have two different views associated to one action? Thanks.

RWendi

Answer 1

You can only have one action, but you can perform whatever logic you want inside that action, and you can call views by name:

return View("MyView");

In your example, you would simply return a different view if the id field was null.

Answer 2

where it says return View(); It takes parameters and you can get it to use whatever view you would like

return View("Members", model);