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nested repeater - access parent data or fields

ASP.Net - VB

I have a repeater nested within another repeater. It is a questionnaire repeater and it holds questions in the parent repeater and possible answers in the child. In the Footer of the child repeater I have the ability to add new possible answers. The problem is when the button is clicked to add an answer I do associate it with the parent question. i can't seem to find a way to access the parent data or a field in the parent question role that will give me the id of the question. Can anyone help me out. I will post what my repeater looks like right now. I have been able to succesfully trap the itemcommand event which it seems people have a lot of trouble doing, but just can't seem to grab the data of the parent question on the itemcommand event.

<asp:repeater id="parentRepeater" runat="server">
 <HeaderTemplate>
 <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" rules="none" frame="border" width="100%">
 <tr bgcolor="#99cc66">
 <td width="50%">Question</td>
 <td width="25%">Type</td>
 <td width="25%"></td>
 </tr>
 </HeaderTemplate>
 <itemtemplate>
 <tr>
 <td><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "QQ_Question") %><asp:Label Runat=server ID="lblHidQQID" Visible=False text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "QQ_ID") %>'></asp:Label></td>
 <td><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "QQ_Type") %></td>
 <td><asp:Button id="btnQuestionRemove" Runat="server" Text="Remove Question" Font-Size="7"></asp:Button></td>
 </tr>
 <asp:repeater id="childRepeater" runat="server" OnItemCommand="eventRepeater_ItemCommand" OnItemDataBound="eventRepater_ItemDataBound" EnableViewState=True datasource='<%# Container.DataItem.Row.GetChildRows("myrelation")%>'>
 <HeaderTemplate>
 <tr bgcolor="#ffffe4">
 <td></td>
 <td>Answer Choice</td>
 <td></td>
 </tr>
 </HeaderTemplate>
 <itemtemplate>
 <tr bgcolor="#ffffe4">
 <td>
 <asp:Label ID="lblhidQCID" Runat=server Visible=False text='<%# Container.DataItem("QC_ID") %>'>
 </asp:Label>
 <asp:Label ID="lblhidQQID" Runat=server Visible=False text='<%# Container.DataItem("QC_Question")%>'>
 </asp:Label>
 </td>
 <td><%# Container.DataItem("QC_Answer") %></td>
 <td>
 <asp:Button id="btnAnswerRemove" Runat="server" CommandName="delete" Text="Delete Answer" Font-Size="7"></asp:Button></td>
 </tr>
 </itemtemplate>
 <FooterTemplate>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">
 <asp:Label ID="lblhiAddAnswerQQID" Runat="server" Visible="False" text=""></asp:Label>
 </td>
 <td valign="top">
 <asp:TextBox ID="txtAnswer" Runat="server"></asp:TextBox></td>
 <td valign="top">
 <asp:Button id="btnAddAnswer" Runat="server" Text="Add Answer" CommandName="add" Font-Size="7"></asp:Button></td>
 </tr>
 </FooterTemplate>
 </asp:repeater>
 </itemtemplate>
 <FooterTemplate>
 <tr bgcolor="#99cc66">
 <td width="50%">Add Question:</td>
 <td width="25%"></td>
 <td width="25%"></td>
 </tr>
 <tr bgcolor="#99cc66">
 <td width="50%"><asp:TextBox ID="txtQuestion" TextMode="MultiLine" Width="90%" Runat="server"></asp:TextBox></td>
 <td width="25%"><asp:DropDownList ID="ddlQuestionType" Width="90%" Runat="server">
 <asp:ListItem Value="1">Multiple Choice</asp:ListItem>
 <asp:ListItem Value="3">Text</asp:ListItem>
 </asp:DropDownList></td>
 <td width="25%"><asp:Button id="btnAddQuestion" Runat="server" Text="Add Question" CommandName="add" Font-Size="7"></asp:Button></td>
 </tr>
 </TABLE>
 </FooterTemplate> </asp:repeater>

svy

((Label)childRepeater.Parent.FindControl("lblHidQQID")).Text;

sesurb

ASKER

You can't grab it that way. At the minimum you would need to use the e.Item.Parent.FindControl("lblHidQQID").Text but this still does not gt any data.

sesurb

ASKER

I think I have maybe fixed this problem. Instead of doing it in the itemcommand if i do it in the item_databound I can get access to the data. Thanks for the attempt.

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kodiakbear

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