asp.net mvc - Passing route values to Html.BeginForm

Question

I want the form to pass the values from the hidden inputs to the server and I also expected it to build the URL as "localhost:9392/Ranking/Index/2?rankingType=SOMEVALUE&ageGroup=SOMEVALUE&week=SOMEVALUE"

but it shows like "localhost:9392/Ranking/Index/2?rankingType=rankingTypeID&ageGroup=ageGroupID&week=week"

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Ranking", new { id = Model.CurrentRanking, rankingType = "rankingTypeID", ageGroup = "ageGroupID", week = "week"}, FormMethod.Post, new { id = "ageGroupForm" }))
                {
                <input id="ageGroupID" name="ageGroup" hidden />
                <input id="rankingTypeID" name="rankingType" hidden />
                <input id="week" name="week" hidden />              
                }

Why is that ? How do I pass the values and also have them show up as query string ?

Answer 1

Try this code:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Index", "Ranking"))
                {
                <input id="ageGroupID" name="ageGroup" hidden />
                <input id="rankingTypeID" name="rankingType" hidden />
                <input id="week" name="week" hidden />              
                }

and in your action method, decorate it like:

public ActionResult Index(string ageGroupID, string rankingTypeID, string week){}