Problem returning specific view in asp.net mvc3

Question

I have a view file structure like:

Views
   Company
      Department
      Employee
          ManageEmployee.cshtml

and the controller is

public class EmployeeController : Controller
 {
    public ActionResult Index(int dptId)
    {
            var loadedEmp = getEmpOf(dptId);
            return View("Company/Employee/ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);
     }
}

But the controller give me an error - telling that it can't find the view.These are the paths it search.

~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.aspx
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.ascx
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.vbhtml

Basically if I'm able to eliminate the Employee section, the engine will find it.

~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml to this

~/Views/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml

Any insights on how to achieve this.

Thanks.

A bit irrelevant/slightly related, but maybe consider using T4MVC? This will avoid magic strings. It definitely helps when manually entering view names - mvccontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=T4MVC — Dan Atkinson
– Dan Atkinson, Commented Jan 5, 2011 at 21:02
You have two options here Option #1 Create the Company/Department/Employee Directory inside Shared Folder. You can locate the Shared Folder inside the View Folder of Root Directory. Option #2 Create the Employee/Company/Department/Employee Directory indide View Directory of your Root Folder. — Imad Alazani
– Imad Alazani, Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 10:06

Jamie Dixon · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-05 16:08:56Z

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Have you tried:

return View("/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);

It looks like the engine is trying to return the view relative to your current location in the site rather than from the root of the site.

answered Jan 5, 2011 at 16:08

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Druid · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-12 13:11:02Z

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View has to be returned from the controller in the following way (for Specific View):

return View("ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);

In MVC, the controller will automatically route to the View name you provided.

loadedEmp should be the object you are passing to the view.

edited Jul 12, 2012 at 13:11

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answered Jul 5, 2012 at 19:07

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enorl76 · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-17 19:10:24Z

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You need to follow MVCs convention of ControllerNameController for your controller and your view structure of ControllerName/...

If you want full control over your structure you'll need to switch to a different framework like FubuMVC.

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answered Jan 5, 2011 at 16:08

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roncansan Over a year ago

Absolutely, I need to follow MVCs convention. What I did to resolve my case was to create partial classes of the same controller with different file name,to separate the logic, but have the URl structure I was looking for. Thanks

Moble Joseph · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-09 21:30:57Z

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If you want your own convention of arranging the views folder structures, it would be better you plug in your own view engine.

answered Jul 9, 2012 at 21:30

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