Hello all,

I've been fighting with this for a few days and I'm just not sure where to go anymore.

Basically I'm trying to create a macro that is used to display data on a page. Seems simple enough; I can do it in several languages right now. :) Part of the problem for me is I'm new to Umbraco, MVC, and C#. In some cases, I'll want to submit a form.

For example, I'm working on one that needs to pull data from the DB and populate a dropdown. The user will select the category, submit a form, and then it'll populate two more dropdowns with data dependent upon the first one. In the end, the final form submission will roll everything up and display a set of search results.

I have things working on two ends. One, I followed the tutorial from a course and got a contact form working in MVC as a macro. I tried using the same approach to my form, and what I can't figure out there is how to get data to populate on the initial page load. I read up on routing, but creating an index method in my controller didn't work.

On the other side, I can get an MVC project to compile and work fine (where each actions have their own views in folders with the same name, etc), but I can't get it to work within Umbraco. I thought maybe I could take my view and turn it into a partial, and just include it in the macro page, but that doesn't work either.

I feel like I have two pieces to the equation but can't put them together to get what I need. Do you have any recommendations on where to go next? Has anyone put together a tutorial on how to put together an MVC macro that loads some stuff on intial page view and has some form interaction?

Thanks for your advice.

Cheers, -jason