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making webform look like a spreadsheet

Asked by: tentavarious

Hello yet again,
I was given the task of making a webform resemble a spreadsheet.  I am not sure the best way to go about this because, there are going to be 15 rows and 9 columns and i need for the user to be able to enter data in each cell.  I was wondering what is the best way to do this.  Is building it with a table and putting a textbox in each cell feasable, because that will be a lot of textboxes to keep track of or is thier an easier way?  Just looking for some advice, plus when i am done any data entered will be added to a database.

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by: jonleehackerPosted on 2004-05-28 at 09:31:09ID: 11181896

I think this page has an example of what you are looking for:

http://www.aspnet101.com/aspnet101/aspnet/codesample.aspx?code=dgEdit

 

by: tentavariousPosted on 2004-05-28 at 10:04:28ID: 11182246

Thanks, but that is not what i need.  My webform will add new records, the user needs to be able to type in new records, each row will be a record.  I will not be updating from a datagrid directly, but when the user clicks the add record button all the rows will be added.  i need for it to resemble an excel spread sheet and that is no problem when using a table.  The first row will be titles an all the cells after will be textboxes, if i want it to work like i want, i was just wondering if there is an easier way maybe a special control i can download that mimics an excel spread sheet.

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                              <TD VALIGN="bottom" style="HEIGHT: 18px" ALIGN="center">
                                    <asp:Image id="Image2" runat="server" ImageUrl="file:///C:\inetpub\wwwroot\tool\Tool128\images\SCHED.bmp"></asp:Image></TD>
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by: jonleehackerPosted on 2004-05-28 at 10:37:27ID: 11182529

I don't quite understand. What you are describing is exactly the functionality of a datagrid and yet you say you want to use a table rather than a datagrid.

To me a datagrid is a lot more like an Excel spreadsheet than an html table.

If it was me I'd open up a 15 x 9 blank datagrid that is bound to a dataset and an "add" button that adds all the info at once.

 

by: tentavariousPosted on 2004-05-28 at 11:12:04ID: 11182834

How do i make a blank datagrid with 9 columns and 15 rows and 8 columns need to contain a textbox the other one needs a checkbox.  The datagrid needs the functionality of being able to tab through the cells and enter in data, i not sure how to do that.

 

by: tentavariousPosted on 2004-05-28 at 11:26:28ID: 11182943

Another issue is that i have to do error checking to make sure duplicate data is not entered, or characters are not entered in a number field or that a field is not left blank and many other error checks.  The easiest way i thought would be to create a table that looks like a grid and fill each cell with textboxes, that would give the functionality i need, but it would take a lot of code.

 

by: jonleehackerPosted on 2004-05-28 at 14:31:16ID: 11184391

here's how to add a checkbox into a datagrid:

http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=51

you don't have to add textboxes since the default space in a datagrid is the same as a textbox (see the example I posted above). As for validation you can do plenty of validation on the dataset that is bound to the datagrid.

Here's an article on how to attach custom events to do things like validate input on a datagrid:

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/042402-1.aspx

this is part of a large series of articles that will demo a lot of the power of a datagrid control.

 

by: tentavariousPosted on 2004-06-03 at 09:21:34ID: 11224352

Still not quite what i need, i dont know if the datagrid has the functionality of what i need.

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