Passing parameters to Action Method from ActionLink

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Hi I want to pass dropdown values to action method from ActionLink but while debugging second parameter coming properly but first one is null.
Have a look at my code.

HTML

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedField, new SelectList(Model.Filter, "Id", "Name", Model.SelectedField),new { @class = "select1", style = "width:120px;" } )

@Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.SelectedYear, new SelectList(Model.ReportYears, "ID", "Name", Model.SelectedYear), new { @class = "select1", style = "width:120px;" })

action link =>

HTML

@Html.ActionLink("Export to PDF", "DownloadRevenuePdfFile", "EmailReport", new { month = Model.SelectedField, year = Model.SelectedYear }, new { @class = "black" })

controller

C#

public void DownloadRevenuePdfFile(string month, string year)

thanks

Posted 18-Dec-13 0:35am

Imadoddin

Updated 18-Dec-13 1:24am

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Member 10434230 18-Dec-13 6:53am

what is value of Model.SelectedField?

[no name] 18-Dec-13 7:22am

month

[no name] 18-Dec-13 7:25am

I update question to make it more informative

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-22T11:17:00

Solution 1

Your link is calculated at compile time on the server. As such, your page needs to post back when a selection is made, to update any link. So I'd do away with the action link and instead have a method you call, which calculates the links and does a redirect, based on the current values.

Posted 22-Dec-13 11:17am

Christian Graus