Question

Datagrid problem

Asked by: TheInnovator

I created a gridview that renders 5 columns to a page.
In the last column, the data that is rendered is based on
data from a column data in a table. Also, I want the last column to be
a link as a querystring. I'm a little confused b/c my codebehind
is on a different page. In PHP, b/c the script and html were on the
same page, it was easier. Below I have PHP code and I just want to
do the same in ASP.NET. I also have the ASP.NET and my codebehind (C#) below.

PHP
------
  <TR style="font-size:12px;font-family:arial;background-color:<?php echo $row_color; ?>">
	  	  	<TD><?php echo $row["medDte"]; ?></TD>
	  	  	<TD><?php echo getMediaName($row["medType"]); ?></TD>
	  	  	<TD><?php echo $row["medCopy"]; ?></TD>
	  	  	<TD><?php echo $row["medPurpose"]; ?></TD>
	  	  	<TD align="center">
	  	  	<?php
	  	  		//echo "copies: ".$row["medCopy"];
	  	  		if ($row["medCopy"] > 1)
	  	  		{
	  	  			echo "<a href='mediaDetail.php?medid=".$row["medID"]."&reqID=".$row["ReqID"]."'>Detail</a>";
	  	  		}
	  	  		else
	  	  		{
	  	  			$sql = "SELECT
	  	  						dbo.tblRequestor.ReqID AS Expr1,
	  	  						dbo.tblRequestor.pid,
	  	  						dbo.tblMediaTracker.statusID AS medStatusID,
	  	  						dbo.tblMediaTracker.MediaID,
	  	  						dbo.tblMediaTracker.MediaIDNumber As medIDNumber,
	  	  						dbo.tblMediaTracker.mediaTrackID as mediaTrackID
							FROM
								dbo.tblMediaTracker INNER JOIN
                      			dbo.tblRequestor ON dbo.tblMediaTracker.reqID = dbo.tblRequestor.ReqID WHERE dbo.tblRequestor.pid=".$_SESSION["pid"]." AND dbo.tblMediaTracker.MediaID=".$row["medID"];
                      			//echo $sql;
					$results = mssql_query($sql);
					if ($rows=mssql_fetch_array($results))
					{
						if ($rows["medStatusID"] == 4)
						{
							echo "<a href='cancelRequest.php?trackId=".$rows["mediaTrackID"]."&type=single&medid=".$row["medID"]."'><img border=0 src='image/delete.gif' alt='Delete Request'></a>";
						}
						elseif ($rows["medStatusID"] != 3)
						{
							echo "<A HREF=javascript:popUp('statusPop.php?trackId=".$rows["mediaTrackID"]."&statusId=".$rows["medStatusID"]."&typed=".$row["medType"]."&cnt=(1)')>".getStatusName($rows["medStatusID"])."</a>";
							echo "<br><span style=font-size:10px;font-weight:bold>Media ID #:".$rows["medIDNumber"]."</span>";
						}
						else
						{
							echo "<span style='font-style:italics;color:red'>DESTROYED</span>";
						}
					}
	  	  		}
	  	  	?>
	  	  </TD>
	  	  <!-- <TD><a HREF=javascript:popUp('statusPop.php')>Cancel</a></TD> -->
	  	  </TR>
 
 
 
 
 
 
ASP.NET
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<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="myRequest.aspx.cs" Inherits="RequestMedia.myRequest" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <link href="mediaCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
	<!-- ****************** BEGIN OUTER TABLE ****************** -->
	<table width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center">
	  <tr>
	    <td width="15%" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">
	        <div id="navcontainer">
                <ul id="navlist">
                    <li><a href="default.aspx" id="newNavMed" style="">New Media Request</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#" id="navReq" style="">My Media Requests</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>
	    </td>
	    <td bgcolor="#dddddd">
	    <!-- ****************** BEGIN 1ST INNER TABLE ****************** -->
	  	<table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	  	  <tr>
			  <td class="tblHeading" colspan="2">New Media Request</td>
		  </tr>
		  <tr>
			  <td class="formFields" colspan="2">    
                <asp:GridView ID="myRequestGridView1" runat="server" onselectedindexchanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoGenerateColumns="false" Width="100%">
                <Columns>
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medDte" HeaderText="Request Date" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medType" HeaderText="Type" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medCopy" HeaderText="# of Media" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medPurpose" HeaderText="Purpose" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />      
                    <asp:templatefield>
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <label id="mediaLink"><a href="requestDetail.aspx?">Detail</a></label>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:templatefield>    
                </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>
              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
Code Behind
---------------
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
 
namespace RequestMedia
{
    public partial class myRequest : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection();
            conn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["toucanMedia"].ConnectionString;
            conn.Open();
 
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("getUserMedID", conn);
            cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
            cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@pid", 1208));
            SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
 
            DataSet media = new DataSet();
            adapter.SelectCommand = cmd;
            adapter.Fill(media);
 
            myRequestGridView1.DataSource = media;
            myRequestGridView1.DataBind();
 
            conn.Close();
        }
 
        protected void GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            
        }
    }
}

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Asked On: 2009-09-29 at 11:36:00ID24771121
Tags: ASP.NET
Topics: Programming for ASP.NET
,; C# Programming Language
Participating Experts: 2
Points: 500
Comments: 22

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Answers

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-29 at 11:46:15ID: 25451999

In your item template you can call a method that will evaluate the data and return a string, like:

<itemTemplate>
<%#GetMediaLink(Eval("medStatusID"))%>
</itemTemplate>

Then in your code behind:

public string GetMediaLink(string statusID)
{
//Do Whatever if statements etc
return "<a href=...";
}

by: robkolskyPosted on 2009-09-29 at 11:47:44ID: 25452012

<label id="mediaLink"><a href="requestDetail.aspx?somevariable=<%# DataBinder.Eval (Container.DataItem, "somefield") %>">Detail</a></label>

That should place the value for that row for that field exactly where you put it in the itemtemplate

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-09-29 at 12:13:33ID: 25452296

I'm still sort of confused b/c the code behind concept is new to me.

The last column can read "Cancel", "Delete", or "Archived" based on the data from the dtabase table.
What would the code look like?
Thx.

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-29 at 12:31:20ID: 25452501

I don't know what your values are, but something like:

public string GetMediaLink(string statusID)
{
   string returnValue = "";
   switch(statusID)
   {
      case "1":
         returnValue = "<a href=\"somepage.aspx\">Cancel</a>";
         break;
      case "2":
         returnValue = "<a href=\"somepage.aspx\">Delete</a>";
         break;
   }
 
   return returnValue;
}

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by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-09-30 at 05:35:18ID: 25457991

OK. I did a little bit more research and used a dataTable because I needed the id in my queryString, so I modified my code some and got stuck.

How can I use the information in my dataTable (drInsert["ReqID"],drInsert["medID"],etc.) and use it in the queryString that's in the GetStatusLink()?

Also, I get a blue squigly linke under "foreach" that says, "foreach statement cannot operate on variables of type 'System.Data.DataTable' becuase 'System.Data.DataTable' does not contain a public definition for 'GetEnumerator'".

How do I resolve that?

Thanks.

ASP.NET CODE
------------
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="myRequest.aspx.cs" Inherits="RequestMedia.myRequest" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <link href="mediaCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
	<!-- ****************** BEGIN OUTER TABLE ****************** -->
	<table width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center">
	  <tr>
	    <td width="15%" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">
	        <div id="navcontainer">
                <ul id="navlist">
                    <li><a href="default.aspx" id="newNavMed" style="">New Media Request</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#" id="navReq" style="">My Media Requests</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>
	    </td>
	    <td bgcolor="#dddddd">
	    <!-- ****************** BEGIN 1ST INNER TABLE ****************** -->
	  	<table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	  	  <tr>
			  <td class="tblHeading" colspan="2">New Media Request</td>
		  </tr>
		  <tr>
			  <td class="formFields" colspan="2">    
                <asp:GridView ID="myRequestGridView1" runat="server" onselectedindexchanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoGenerateColumns="false" Width="100%">
                <Columns>
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medDte" HeaderText="Request Date" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medType" HeaderText="Type" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medCopy" HeaderText="# of Media" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medPurpose" HeaderText="Purpose" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />      
                    <asp:templatefield>
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <% GetStatusLink(Eval("medCopy").ToString()); %>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:templatefield>    
                </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>
              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
 
CODE BEHIND
-----------
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
 
namespace RequestMedia
{
    public partial class myRequest : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection();
            conn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["toucanMedia"].ConnectionString;
            conn.Open();
 
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("getUserMedID", conn);
            cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
            cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@pid", 1208));
            SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
 
            DataSet media = new DataSet();
            adapter.SelectCommand = cmd;
            adapter.Fill(media);
 
            DataTable dtMedia = new DataTable();
            dtMedia.Columns.Add("medDte");
            dtMedia.Columns.Add("medType");
            dtMedia.Columns.Add("medCopy", typeof(int));
            dtMedia.Columns.Add("medPurpose");
            dtMedia.Columns.Add("statusLink");
 
            foreach (DataRow dr in media.Tables[0])
            {
                DataRow drInsert = dtMedia.NewRow();
                drInsert["medDte"] = dr["medDte"];
                drInsert["ReqID"] = dr["ReqID"];
                drInsert["medType"] = dr["medType"];
                drInsert["medCopy"] = dr["medCopy"];
                drInsert["medPurpose"] = dr["medPurpose"];
                drInsert["medID"] = dr["medID"];
                drInsert["statusLink"] = GetStatusLink(dr["medCopy"].ToString());
            }
            
            myRequestGridView1.DataSource = media;
            myRequestGridView1.DataBind();
 
            conn.Close();
        }
 
        public string GetStatusLink(string statusID)
        {
            string returnValue = "";
            switch (statusID)
            {
                case "1":
                    returnValue = "<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx?medid=\">Cancel</a>";
                    break;
                case "2":
                    returnValue = "<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx\">Delete</a>";
                    break;
            }
 
            return returnValue;
        }
 
        protected void GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            
        }
    }
}

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by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 07:00:27ID: 25458901

FYI. The foreach message your getting is because a DataTable isn't a collection of rows, a DataTable HAS a collection of rows that you could itterate though like:

foreach (DataRow dr in media.Tables[0].Rows)
{
...
}

I don't believe this is how you want to do it though. I'll re-work some code and post it in a bit.

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 07:17:36ID: 25459085

Try something more like:

public partial class myRequest : Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if(!IsPostBack)
            {
                DataSet media = new DataSet();
 
                using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["toucanMedia"].ConnectionString))
                {
                    conn.Open();
 
                    using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("getUserMedID", conn))
                    {
                        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
                        cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@pid", 1208));
                        SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
                        
                        adapter.SelectCommand = cmd;
                        adapter.Fill(media);
                    }
 
                    conn.Close();
                }
 
                myRequestGridView1.DataSource = media;
                myRequestGridView1.DataBind();
            }
        }
 
        protected void myRequestGridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
 
        public string GetStatusLink(string reqId, string medId)
        {
            string returnValue = "";
            switch (reqId)
            {
                case "1":
                    returnValue = string.Format("<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx?medid={0}\">Cancel</a>", medId);
                    break;
                case "2":
                    returnValue = "<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx\">Delete</a>";
                    break;
            }
 
            return returnValue;
 
        }
   }

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by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 07:18:51ID: 25459093

You don't need to loop through the rows in your table because the gridview will do that for you when you databind it.

If you want more values from your datarow in your getlink, you add the parameters in your code-behind and add them to the call in the datagrid as I have shown in the example above.

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-09-30 at 07:52:01ID: 25459546

It says I'm missing an assembly. Below are the errors

Error 5 The type or namespace name 'Page' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) D:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\RequestMedia\RequestMedia\myRequest.aspx.cs 80 34 RequestMedia

Error 6 The type or namespace name 'EventArgs' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference? D:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\RequestMedia\RequestMedia\myRequest.aspx.cs 110 75 RequestMedia

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 08:03:23ID: 25459667

You should have only replaced the class portion of your code-behind. The error you get is because you don't have the appropriate using statements, which indicates that you may have replaced the whole file with the contents I posted.

Sorry I wasn't clear about where to place the code...

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 08:04:04ID: 25459672

The class Page is in System.Web.UI and the EventArgs are in System.

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-09-30 at 10:07:32ID: 25460944

Ok. I see. not your fault...should have known.

Anyway, now I get a compilation error on line 39
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Compilation Error
Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS1501: No overload for method 'GetStatusLink' takes '1' arguments

Source Error:

Line 37: <asp:templatefield>
Line 38: <ItemTemplate>
Line 39: <% GetStatusLink(Eval("medCopy").ToString()); %>
Line 40: </ItemTemplate>
Line 41: </asp:templatefield>

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-09-30 at 10:23:44ID: 25461110

Oh, right. That one is my bad:

<% GetStatusLink(Eval("reqID").ToString(), Eval("medID").ToString()); %>

This is the change you'd make if you wanted to add other parameters as well.

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-10-01 at 06:43:40ID: 25468517

I added the change and now I get
"Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control." How do you bind an <itemTemplate> ?

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-10-01 at 08:05:34ID: 25469496

The ItemTemplate is not databound. The ItemTemplate is within the GridView which is databound.

<asp:GridView ID="myRequestGridView1" runat="server" onselectedindexchanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoGenerateColumns="false" Width="100%">
                <Columns>
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medDte" HeaderText="Request Date" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medType" HeaderText="Type" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medCopy" HeaderText="# of Media" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medPurpose" HeaderText="Purpose" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />      
                    <asp:templatefield>
                        <ItemTemplate><% GetStatusLink(Eval("reqID").ToString(), Eval("medID").ToString()); %></ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:templatefield>    
                </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>

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by: locke_aPosted on 2009-10-01 at 08:06:19ID: 25469503

Can you post your code as you have it currently, I suspect in the course of copying and pasting partial examples we may have missed something.

Thanks!

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-10-01 at 14:04:16ID: 25473219

Here you go:

ASP.NET
-------
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="myRequest.aspx.cs" Inherits="RequestMedia.myRequest" %>
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <link href="mediaCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
	<!-- ****************** BEGIN OUTER TABLE ****************** -->
	<table width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center">
	  <tr>
	    <td width="15%" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">
	        <div id="navcontainer">
                <ul id="navlist">
                    <li><a href="default.aspx" id="newNavMed" style="">New Media Request</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#" id="navReq" style="">My Media Requests</a></li>
                </ul>
            </div>
	    </td>
	    <td bgcolor="#dddddd">
	    <!-- ****************** BEGIN 1ST INNER TABLE ****************** -->
	  	<table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="0">
	  	  <tr>
			  <td class="tblHeading" colspan="2">New Media Request</td>
		  </tr>
		  <tr>
			  <td class="formFields" colspan="2">    
                <asp:GridView ID="myRequestGridView1" runat="server" onselectedindexchanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged" AutoGenerateColumns="false" Width="100%">
                <Columns>
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medDte" HeaderText="Request Date" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medType" HeaderText="Type" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medCopy" HeaderText="# of Media" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:BoundField DataField="medPurpose" HeaderText="Purpose" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />      
                    <asp:templatefield>
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <% GetStatusLink(Eval("reqID").ToString(), Eval("medID").ToString()); %>
                        </ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:templatefield>    
                </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>
              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 
 
CODE BEHIND
-------------
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
 
namespace RequestMedia
{
public partial class myRequest : Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!IsPostBack)
            {
                DataSet media = new DataSet();
 
                using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["toucanMedia"].ConnectionString))
                {
                    conn.Open();
 
                    using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("getUserMedID", conn))
                    {
                        cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
                        cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@pid", 1208));
                        SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
 
                        adapter.SelectCommand = cmd;
                        adapter.Fill(media);
                    }
 
                    conn.Close();
                }
 
                myRequestGridView1.DataSource = media;
                myRequestGridView1.DataBind();
            }
        }
 
        protected void GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
 
        public string GetStatusLink(string reqId, string medId)
        {
            string returnValue = "";
            switch (reqId)
            {
                case "1":
                    returnValue = string.Format("<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx?medid={0}\">Cancel</a>", medId);
                    break;
                case "2":
                    returnValue = "<a href=\"requestDetail.aspx\">Delete</a>";
                    break;
            }
 
            return returnValue;
 
        }
    }
}

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by: locke_aPosted on 2009-10-01 at 14:09:08ID: 25473253

And, are you still getting an error when you run it; if so, what?

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-10-02 at 06:22:52ID: 25477579

"Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control."

by: TheInnovatorPosted on 2009-10-02 at 06:23:49ID: 25477591

Also, the error points to this line

<ItemTemplate>
<% GetStatusLink(Eval("reqID").ToString(), Eval("medID").ToString()); %> <--------
</ItemTemplate>

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-10-05 at 13:37:49ID: 25499454

You might try changing the line to read:

<% GetStatusLink(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"reqID").ToString(),DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"medID").ToString()); %>

And see if it makes a difference.

http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2008/08/24/Is-_2200_Databinding-methods-such-as-Eval_280029002C00_-XPath_280029002C00_-and-Bind_28002900_-can-only-be-used-in-the-context-of-a-databound-control_2E002200_-causing-you-grief_3F00_.aspx

by: locke_aPosted on 2009-10-05 at 13:43:36ID: 25499516

Oh, I see... could be a simple syntax oversight.

Try adding a # after <%

<%# GetStatusLink(Eval("reqID").ToString(), Eval("medID").ToString()) %>

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