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I have a view file structure like:

Views
   Company
      Department
      Employee
          ManageEmployee.cshtml

and the controller is

public class EmployeeController : Controller
 {
    public ActionResult Index(int dptId)
    {
            var loadedEmp = getEmpOf(dptId);
            return View("Company/Employee/ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);
     }
}

But the controller give me an error - telling that it can't find the view.These are the paths it search.

~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.aspx
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.ascx
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployees.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.ascx
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml
~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.vbhtml

Basically if I'm able to eliminate the Employee section, the engine will find it.

~/Views/Employee/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml to this

~/Views/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee.cshtml

Any insights on how to achieve this.

Thanks.

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A bit irrelevant/slightly related, but maybe consider using T4MVC? This will avoid magic strings. It definitely helps when manually entering view names - mvccontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=T4MVC –  Dan Atkinson Jan 5 '11 at 21:02
 
You have two options here Option #1 Create the Company/Department/Employee Directory inside Shared Folder. You can locate the Shared Folder inside the View Folder of Root Directory. Option #2 Create the Employee/Company/Department/Employee Directory indide View Directory of your Root Folder. –  PKKG Jul 19 at 10:06

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You need to follow MVCs convention of ControllerNameController for your controller and your view structure of ControllerName/...

If you want full control over your structure you'll need to switch to a different framework like FubuMVC.

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Absolutely, I need to follow MVCs convention. What I did to resolve my case was to create partial classes of the same controller with different file name,to separate the logic, but have the URl structure I was looking for. Thanks –  roncansan Jan 5 '11 at 19:17
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Have you tried:

return View("/Company/Employee/ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);

It looks like the engine is trying to return the view relative to your current location in the site rather than from the root of the site.

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If you want your own convention of arranging the views folder structures, it would be better you plug in your own view engine.

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View has to be returned from the controller in the following way (for Specific View):

return View("ManageEmployee", loadedEmp);

In MVC, the controller will automatically route to the View name you provided.

loadedEmp should be the object you are passing to the view.

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