Having a view post back to itself with a different view. Am I doing it correctly?

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OK,

So I am doing something that doesn’t feel right, but I am not sure what my options are or what are the better ways. This is an high level overview at first so you can see what I am trying to achieve:

In my backoffice, I have the following structure:

  • Home
    • Products
      - Product

When the user goes to the /products page, they form to search for products first, so what I did was put this search form in a partial view called ProductFilter.cshtml in my views\partials\ folder. When the user clicks submit, I have another view SearchResults.cshtml that is located in views\ProductFilter\.

In my ProductFilterController, I have the following code which passes the model to the SearchResults view, however, since SearchResults is not a template in Umbraco, the /products page gets posted with the search results, which works, but I am not sure if this is a good thing to do. Also, when the user clicks the browser refresh, it posts again.

   [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult SearchResults(ProductFilterModel productFilterModel)
    {
        var db = new Database("productsDb");
        
        var productSearchResultsModel = new ProductSearchResultsModel
        {
            ProductFilterModel = productFilterModel,
            Products = db.Fetch<ProductViewModel>(@"SELECT * 
                                                    FROM Products")
        };


        return View(productSearchResultsModel);
    }

Thanks,
Saied

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/71189-having-a-view-post-back-to-itself-with-a-different-view-am-i-doing-it-correctly