How do I refresh a second partial view, after the first partial view is updated? - ajax

Question

I have a page which has a partial view (it's a login form). When the submit button is clicked, it calls the controller and logs the person in and refreshes the login form to show that he is logged in.
I now need to update the portion of the screen that shows the login button, or if he is logged in, shows "Hello, Logged In user"
I have a partial view written that shows whether or not the person is logged in, but I don't know how to call it after the success of the first one. I know there is an OnSuccess event, and that seems to be where I would wire that up, but I am not sure how to do this.
#using (Ajax.BeginForm("Login", "Account", new AjaxOptions { InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = "loginSection", }))
{
<div id="loginSection">
...form omitted for clarity.
<input type="submit" value="Log in" />
</div>
}
This is the partial view that needs to be updated after the login.
<ul id="menu">
#if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
<text>
Hello, #User.Identity.Name
</text>
}
else
{
<ul>
<a onclick="openLoginWindow()">Login</a>
<a onclick="openRegisterWindow()">Register</a>
</ul>
}

Answer 1

Instead of using Ajax.BeginForm, use normal form and do the form posting with your custom code so that you can controll the success handler as you wish
<div id="login">
#using(Html.Beginform())
{
<input type="text" name="UserName" />
<input type="text" name="Password" />
<input type="submit" id="btnLogin" />
}
</div>
and the script which will listen to the submit button click event and send the form the action method.
$(function(){
$("#btnLogin").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var _this=$(this);
var _form=_this.closest("form");
$.post(_form.attr("action"),_form.serialize(),function(res){
if(res.Status==="authenticated")
{
//Let's hide the login form
$("#login").hide();
$("#yourSecondDiv").html(res.PartialViewContent);
}
else
{
alert("Wrong password");
}
});
});
});
So the javascript code is expecting a JSON structure like below from the controller action
{
"Status":"Authenticated",
"PartialViewContent" : "<p>The markup you want to show</p>"
}
the PartialViewContent will hold the markup you want to show to the user.
public ActionResult Login(string UserName,string Password)
{
//to do : Build the JSON and send it back
}
This answer will tell you how send the markup of a partial view in a JSON property to client.

Answer 2

Here is what worked for me:
Added OnSuccess:
#using (Ajax.BeginForm("Login", "Account", new AjaxOptions {
InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace,
UpdateTargetId = "loginSection",
OnSuccess = "successfulLogin"
}))
{... details omitted.
Then added this:
function successfulLogin() {
$('#loginPartial').load('Account/LoginLinksPartial');
which calls in the controller:
public ActionResult LoginLinksPartial()
{
return PartialView("_LoginLinks");
}