I am working on an MVC3 web page where a URL parameter is used to represent a date in the format dd-MM-yyyy.
public ActionResult Calendar(string startDate, string UserId, string status, bool myPage = false)
Within the calendar view, there is a partial view that triggers an onchange event whenever a dropdown list value is changed. This event corresponds to the status parameter in the method and is also passed in the URL.
The route mapping for the calendar view is as follows:
routes.MapRoute(
"TimesheetCalendar", // Route name
"Timesheet/Calendar/{startDate}/{UserId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Timesheet", action = "Calendar", UserId = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);
Included within the partial view is a JavaScript onchange event like this:
<script type="text/javascript>
$(function () {
$(".ddl").change(function () { changePage(); });
});
function changePage() {
location.href = '@Url.Action("Calendar", "Controller", new { startDate = @ViewBag.startDate, UserId = (string)null })/' + '@ViewBag.userId' + '?status=' + $('#ControllerStatus').val() + '&<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="573a2e073630326a67d251b21414c7b271d1b">[email protected]</a>';
}
In the Calendar GET method of my controller, I set the ViewBag.startdate as date.ToString(dd-MM-yyyy).
Everything works fine most of the time. However, sometimes when changing the dropdown list status, the page refreshes but encounters a 404 error. It seems that whenever the week shown on the calendar is the current week, the URL changes the hyphens in the date representation from dd-MM-yyyy to dd/MM/yyyy, causing issues.
As a newcomer to JavaScript, I'm unsure why this happens. Any insights or advice would be greatly appreciated!