Pass object to another action of ASP.net MVC 2 - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have one view that used to display the result of my search item. This is its controller :
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult EvaluatingReport(FormCollection frm)
{
string empType = frm["empType"].ToString();
int totalMonth = 3;
int mon = DateTime.Now.Month;
int yr = DateTime.Now.Year;
string Curdate = mon + "/" + yr;
DateTime date = new DateTime();
var result = (from e in context.tblEmployees
join p in context.tblEmployee_Position on e.PositionIDF equals p.PositionID
select new EvaluateEmployee
{
ID = e.Code,
IDCard = e.IDCard,
Name = e.NameEng,
DOB = e.DOB,
Position = p.Position,
Sex = e.Sex,
StartDate = e.StartDate
}).ToList();
result = result.Where(((s => mon - int.Parse(s.StartDate.Substring(3, 2).ToString()) == totalMonth && yr -int.Parse(s.StartDate.Substring(6, 4).ToString()) == totalYear))).ToList();
ViewData["EmployeeType"] = result;
return View();
}
I displayed the content in the view by looping ViewData["EmployeeType"] and I also included one Print label :
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function printChart() {
var URL = "EvaluatingReport";
var W = window.open(URL);
W.window.print();
}
function printPage(sURL) {
var oHiddFrame = document.createElement("iframe");
oHiddFrame.src = sURL;
oHiddFrame.style.visibility = "hidden";
oHiddFrame.style.position = "fixed";
oHiddFrame.style.right = "0";
oHiddFrame.style.bottom = "0";
document.body.appendChild(oHiddFrame);
oHiddFrame.contentWindow.onload = oHiddFrame.contentWindow.print;
oHiddFrame.contentWindow.onafterprint = function () {
document.body.removeChild(oHiddFrame); };
}
</script>
<span onclick="printPage('/Report/PrintEvaluatingReport');" style="cursor:pointer;text-decoration:none;color:#0000ff;">
<img src="../../Content/images/Print.png" width="35px;" alt="print" style="position:relative;top:6px;"/>
Print Report
</span>
I used function printPage('/Report/PrintEvaluatingReport') to load the print dialog with the action PrintEvaluatingReport. So I want to take the object that I have in EvaluatingReport to the action PrintEvaluatingReport.
Could anyone tell me how could I do that?
Thanks in advanced.

Answer 1

You could use TempData["EmployeeType"]
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult EvaluatingReport(FormCollection frm)
{
string empType = frm["empType"].ToString();
int totalMonth = 3;
int mon = DateTime.Now.Month;
int yr = DateTime.Now.Year;
string Curdate = mon + "/" + yr;
DateTime date = new DateTime();
var result = (from e in context.tblEmployees
join p in context.tblEmployee_Position on e.PositionIDF equals p.PositionID
select new EvaluateEmployee
{
ID = e.Code,
IDCard = e.IDCard,
Name = e.NameEng,
DOB = e.DOB,
Position = p.Position,
Sex = e.Sex,
StartDate = e.StartDate
}).ToList();
result = result.Where(((s => mon - int.Parse(s.StartDate.Substring(3, 2).ToString()) == totalMonth && yr -int.Parse(s.StartDate.Substring(6, 4).ToString()) == totalYear))).ToList();
ViewData["EmployeeType"] = result;
// Store in TempData to be read by PrintEvaluatingReport
TempData["EmployeeType"] = result;
return View();
}
public ActionResult PrintEvaluatingReport()
{
var employeeType = TempData["EmployeeType"] as EmployeeType;
// do stuff
return View();
}

Answer 2

You can use a session variable for that !!
private EmployeeType Result
{
get { return (EmployeeType)this.Session["Result"]; }
set
{
this.Session["Result"] = value;
}
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult EvaluatingReport(FormCollection frm)
{
.
.
.
// Store in Session
this.Result = result;
return View();
}
public ActionResult PrintEvaluatingReport()
{
var employeeType = this.Result;
.
.
.
}