Ajax.BeginForm posts to surface controller and updates target id with full page instead of partial view

Question

Have been trying to get a member profile management area working with ajax as each section of the page is hidden within a show hide div.

I have used ajax before in MVC applications but have never used it with umbraco surface controllers before. I'm unsure why returning a partial view in the controller is outputting the whole page and not just the partial view that I am giving to it.

Controller:

        [HttpPost]
        [ActionName("MvcMemberEditProfileDetails")]
        public ActionResult MvcMemberEditProfileDetails(MvcMemberEditProfileDetailsModel model)
        {

            var memberService = Services.MemberService;
            var currentUser = Membership.GetUser();
            var member = memberService.GetByEmail(currentUser.Email);

            bool result = false;

            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {

                ...

            }

            if (result)
            {
                ...
            }


            return PartialView("MvcMemberEditProfileDetails", model);

        }

View:

@model Umbraco714.Models.MvcMemberEditProfileDetailsModel


@using (Ajax.BeginForm("MvcMemberEditProfileDetails", "MvcMember", new AjaxOptions() { HttpMethod = "POST", UpdateTargetId = "MvcMemberEditProfileDetails", InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace }))
{

    if (Model.Result != null)
    {

        if (Model.Result == true)
        {

            <div id="result" class="alert alert-success">
                @Html.Raw(Model.ResultMessage)
            </div>

        }
        else
        {

            <div id="result" class="alert alert-danger">
                @Html.Raw(Model.ResultMessage)
            </div>

        }

    }

    <div class="form-default">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.FirstName)
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.FirstName)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.FirstName)
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.LastName)
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.LastName)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.LastName)
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.CompanyName)
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.CompanyName)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CompanyName)
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-6">
                <div class="form-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.CompanyPosition)
                    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.CompanyPosition)
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CompanyPosition)
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-xs-12">
                <div class="form-group">
                    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.CompanyBio)
                    <span class="bs-tooltip" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="Max 1000 characters long"><i class="fa fa-info-circle" aria-hidden="true"></i></span>

                    @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.CompanyBio, new { @rows = "4", @maxlength = "1000" })
                    @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.CompanyBio)
                </div>

                @TempData["Status"]
                <div class="form-group nomargin">

                    <div class="text-right">

                        <button class="button" type="submit"><i class="fa fa-floppy-o" aria-hidden="true"></i> Update</button>

                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>

        </div>
    </div>

}

I have everything that needs to be included (as far as I'm aware) well before the form and there are no console errors.

    <script src="/scripts/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="/scripts/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/scripts/jquery-val.js"></script>

    <script src="/scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js"></script>

I have also made sure that UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled is set to true in the web.config but I'm still getting a full page rendered when I post the form.

Initially: When the page loads and the form shows

After: When the form is submitted and the correct partial view is returned but inside of an entire

Feeling pretty dumbfounded that I've spent more that a couple of hours looking into this even though it's clearly working in a sort of way.

Is it possible / a known thing for this to happen? I searched around but couldn't find any topics with a similar issue, unless I was just wording things wrong.

Just looking for a nudge in the right direction if anybody has any ideas?

Answer 1

Umbraco can be funny with partials. Try returning CurrentUmbracoPage() in the controller.

As for the message, you could use TempData as it only lasts for one request, rather than the model.