Hi Steven,
From your description you have a field called "Choice1" in your data
table.
The data of that field is either "Small|Medium|Large|X-Large" or
"Red|Black|Yellow|Blue". You want to display the data via the DropDownList
in the DetailsView's ItemTemplate. Say the data is
"Small|Medium|Large|X-Large" you want to populate four items with text
"Small", "Medium", "Large", "X-Large". Is my understanding correct?
If so please try following code. In the DataBound event handler of the
DetailsView we can get the reference of the DropDownList and populate it
manually:
Aspx:
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server"
ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:AConnectionString %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [Table1]"></asp:SqlDataSource>
<asp
etailsView AllowPaging="true" ID="DetailsView1"
runat="server" AutoGenerateRows="False"
DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" Height="50px" Width="125px"
ondatabound="DetailsView1_DataBound">
<Fields>
<asp:TemplateField><ItemTemplate>
<asp
ropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server">
</asp
ropDownList>
</ItemTemplate></asp:TemplateField>
</Fields>
</asp
etailsView>
Aspx.cs:
protected void DetailsView1_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DetailsView d=(DetailsView)sender;
DropDownList ddl = d.FindControl("DropDownList1") as
DropDownList;
if (ddl != null)
{
DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)d.DataItem;
string data = drv.Row["Choice1"].ToString();
string[] datalist = data.Split('|');
ddl.DataSource = datalist;
ddl.DataBind();
}
}
Please test my code to see if it works. If my understanding is wrong
please
correct me and clarify the scenario.
Regards,
Allen Chen
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| Also to be clear....
|
| The DetailsView is bound to a SqlDataSource, there is a nvarchar
| field called Choice1 with things such as:
| Small|Medium|Large|X-Large
| -or-
| Red|Black|Yellow|Blue
| so instead of binding it to a textbox
| Text='<%# Bind("Choice1") %>'
| I need it to break it out into a DropDown. It's the same dataset
| as the rest of the DetailsView.
|
| Thanks again!
|
|
| > Hi,
| >
| > I have a DetailsView with a template field with a dropdownlist added
to
| > it.
| > If the data coming into that field were put into a textbox, it would
look
| > like:
| > Small|Medium|Large|X-Large.
| > I need to break that out into dropdownlistitems with each text being
the
| > value also.
| > I've tried using a ObjectDataSource unsuccesfully. What would be a
valid
| > way of handling this?
| >
| > Thanks in advance!
| >
| > Steven
| >
|
|
|
