I'm relatively new to MVC, but I have a problem:
Currently, when a user signs into our site for the first time, they are redirected to a change password page; they must change their password before they can access any of the main functionality of the site. After they change their password successfully though, I want to show my custom "Password successfully changed" message on the change password page; I currently do this. After I display my custom message on my change password page, I want to wait a few seconds and then redirect them to the home page.
I want to be able to do something like this:
//User successfully changes password on ChangePassword page
return View(); //This keeps them on the ChangePassword page and shows the success message
//Wait five seconds on ChangePassword page
//Redirecttoaction("Index", "Home");
Thanks!
You wont be able to do that on the server side, you'll have to use javascript. You can use
window.setTimeout(function(){
window.location.href='your URL';
}, 4000);
Another method you could consider is an old school meta-refresh
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4; url=http://example.com/">
Which you could control with a property on your model or a value in the ViewBag
@if(Model.DoRedirect) {
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4; url=http://example.com/">
}
Since this needs to be in the header, you might need to put a header "section" in your _layout
<head>
...
@RenderSection("header", required: false)
</head>
Which you can then use in your view like
@section header
@if(Model.DoRedirect) {
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="4; url=http://example.com/">
}
}
You will have to do this on the client as your server processing ends at return View(); for the request. You have a few options on the client, for example, use a javacript timer and after so many miliseconds invoke your next action.
function onTimerElapsed(){
window.location='@Url.Action("SomeAction","SomeController")';
}
The "wait 4 seconds" part happens client-side, so the resulting redirect should also be client-side. You can redirect in JavaScript after 4 seconds with something like this:
setTimeout(function () {
window.location.replace('@Url.Action("Index", "Home"')
}, 4000);
Note the use of the Url.Action() helper method to inject the resulting URL into the JavaScript code.
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