Is this in a MVC Module? You should be able to use which takes an input of the controller name and action you want invoke. If you just want to render the view itself the code you supplied should work, however you may need to pass a model into it if your "N_Notary/Index" view requires one

yes it is mvc module.

URL.Action just create url of action for me.not render the action

what i want to do is this:based on setting of module i need to show specific action

var DefaultStartAction = Dnn.ModuleContext.Configuration.ModuleSettings.GetValueOrDefault("NotaryStartAction", "");
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(DefaultStartAction))
    {

        Html.RenderPartial("N_Notary/Index");
       
    }
    else
    {
          Html.RenderPartial("N_Notary/Index2");
    }

I think I understand what you are asking, the ability to choose what action to render from the cshtml (View Code). This violates a core principal of Model-View-Controller development and the logic belongs in the Controller where the View is a sample UI that just renders the Model.

I understand that is not the answer you were hoping for and that we all have client demands. If you want to achieve this you won't be able to reference the Controllers Action such as "N_Notary/Index2". Instead find the view that "N_Notary/Index2" uses and reference it directly in the Html.RenderPartial() function.

If that doesn't work you may need to use a fully qualified path including the ".cshtml" extension or even include the full path such as "~/DesktopModules/MVC/MyModule/Views/N_Notary/Index2.cshtml".

Hope this helps

Thank you for answering my questions.

yes this is work for me:

Html.RenderPartial("~/DesktopModules/MVC/Notary/Views/Home/Index2.cshtml");

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        var defaultStartAction = ModuleContext.Configuration.ModuleSettings.GetValueOrDefault("NotaryStartAction", "");
            var defaultStartController = ModuleContext.Configuration.ModuleSettings.GetValueOrDefault("NotaryStartController", "");
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(defaultStartAction) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(defaultStartController))
            {
                return Redirect(defaultStartAction, defaultStartController);
            }
            else
            {
                return Redirect("Index2", "Home");
            }

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but the Redirect not worked correctly and i create class drived  from DnnController and add new Redirect method to it like this:

    public class MyDnnController : DnnController
    {

        protected RedirectResult Redirect(string actionName, string controllerName, RouteValueDictionary routeValues = null)
        {

            if (routeValues == null)
            {
                routeValues = new RouteValueDictionary();
            }
            routeValues["controller"] = controllerName;
            routeValues["action"] = actionName;
            return Redirect(ModuleRoutingProvider.Instance().GenerateUrl(routeValues,this. ModuleContext));

           
        }

    }

and then change inheritance of my Homecontroller to use "MyDnnController"

 public class HomeController : MyDnnController

and this worked for me.

thank you again.

No problem! Glad you got it working.

Routing in the MVC modules sometimes is weird and it "should" work, but I sometimes need to use fully qualified view paths. The .cshtml file lookup should be able to find your .cshtml with just a partial.

Another note I wanted to share for your Controller code. You really should look at the "Url.Action" capabilities as it makes Redirecting to other controllers super simple.

• Url.Action - Generates the correct module specific route to a specific Controller/Action
• RedirectToAction - Helper method that encapsualtes Url.Action 
  • RedirectToAction("Home", "Index") == Redirect(Url.Action("Home", "Index"))