How to update an MVC partial view with regular Ajax - ajax

Question

I have an Ajax form that updates the partial view it's in, but I need it to update a second partial view as well. I'd like to do this without merging them both into one view and updating that.
I think my best bet is to use a regular jQuery Ajax call on the form's onsuccess, but I don't know what parameters to use so I can just call a Controller Action that returns the partial to have it work.
My form is set up with
#using (Ajax.BeginForm("UpdateDateRange",
new { name = Model.Modules[i].Name },
new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = Model.Modules[i].Name.Replace(" ", "_") + "_module" }
))
{ [Input fields] }

Answer 1

In your onSuccessmethod you can make another ajax call.
So for example in your OnSuccessMehtod call "MethodX"...which would do a ajax call and update a div on your page with returned result
var MethodX = function(id)
{
$.get("ActionName?id=" + id, function (result) {
$("#myAnotherdiv").html(result)
}, 'html');
}

Answer 2

In response to ajax call you can send two partial view that you want with this helper:
public static class MvcHelpers
{
public static string RenderPartialView(this Controller controller, string viewName, object model)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
viewName = controller.ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
controller.ViewData.Model = model;
using (var sw = new StringWriter())
{
ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(controller.ControllerContext, viewName);
var viewContext = new ViewContext(controller.ControllerContext, viewResult.View, controller.ViewData, controller.TempData, sw);
viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
}
And in controller:
return Json(new { view1 = this.RenderPartialView(...), view2 = this.RenderPartialView(...) });
and in success you can get two partialView and replace them with old ones:
function success(data)
{
$("someSelectorToSelectPartial1").html(data.view1);
$("someSelectorToSelectPartial2").html(data.view2);
}