How to use same view in MVC for both insert and display operations

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My application has a dashboard where it displays list of added records in a table, and has a button to add new records on same dashboard.

Now from list of records on dashboard if user opens any one of the record it should display that record in Read Only format, I already have a view to insert records I want to use same view for both operations.

any possibility to use same view for insert and display?

What I have tried:

I created two Mvc Action methods one for Insert and another for display and redirecting user to same view on both operations.

Insert:

[HttpGet]
       public ActionResult InsertRecord()
       {
           var model = new InsertViewModel();

           return View("InsertRecord",model);
       }

Display:

<pre> [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult DisplayRecord(int Id)
        {
           var model = new InsertViewModel();
           model=GetExistingRecords(Id);
           return View("InsertRecord",model);

        }

Here I want to DisplayRecord as readonly format on Display Action execution

Posted 12-Jan-21 11:58am

Divyay208

Updated 12-Jan-21 22:00pm

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2021-01-12T22:00:00

Well, you could, if you wanted a messy solution:

C#

public class InsertViewModel
{
    ...
    public bool ReadOnly { get; set; }
}

C#

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult InsertRecord()
{
    var model = new InsertViewModel { ReadOnly = false };
    return View(model);
}

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult DisplayRecord(int id)
{
    var model = GetExistingRecord(id);
    model.ReadOnly = true;
    return View(nameof(InsertRecord), model);
}

Razor

@model InsertViewModel
@{
    ViewBag.Title = Model.ReadOnly ? "Record Details" : "Insert Record";
}

@using (Model.ReadOnly ? null : Html.BeginForm())
{
    @if (!Model.ReadOnly)
    {
        @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.ReadOnly)
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        @Html.ValidationSummary()
    }
    
    ...
    
    @if (Model.ReadOnly)
    {
        @Html.DisplayFor(m => m.SomeField)
    }
    else
    {
        @Html.EditorFor(m => m.SomeField)
    }
    
    ...
    
    @if (!Model.ReadOnly)
    {
        <input type="submit" />
    }
}

However, it would be much cleaner to use separate views for inserting and displaying the records.