I have a partial view (control) that's used across several view pages, and I need to pass the name of the current view back to the controller - so if there's e.g. validation errors, I can re-draw the original view.

A workaround way to do it would be (in the controller methods)

```
var viewName = "Details"; // or whatever
ViewData["viewName"] = viewName;
return(View(viewName, customer));

```

and then in the partial itself, render it as

```
<input type="hidden" name="viewName" 
    value="<%=Html.Encode(ViewData["viewName"])%>" />

```

Question is - is there some property or syntax I can use to retrieve this directly instead of setting it from the controller? I've tried the obvious:

```
<input type="hidden" name="viewName" 
    value="<%=Html.Encode(this.Name)%>" />

```

but this doesn't work. What am I missing here?

Thanks.