You can use the same view model, simply set the property values in your GET action method
public ActionResult Report()
{
var vm = new ReportViewModel();
vm.Name="SuperManReport";
return View(vm);
}
and in your view
@model ReportViewModel
<h2>@Model.Name</h2>
<p>Can have input field with value set in action method</p>
@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.TextBoxFor(s=>s.Name)
<input type="submit" />
}
@Html.ActionLink("link caption", "actionName", new { Model.Page }) // view's controller
@Html.ActionLink("link caption", "actionName", "controllerName", new { reportID = 1 }, null);
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult actionName(int reportID)
{
Note that the reportID in the new {} part matches reportID in the action parameters, you can add any number of parameters this way, but any more than 2 or 3 (some will argue always) you should be passing a model via a POST (as per other answer)
Edit: Added null for correct overload as pointed out in comments. There's a number of overloads and if you specify both action+controller, then you need both routeValues and htmlAttributes. Without the controller (just caption+action), only routeValues are needed but may be best practice to always specify both.