Repeater

[Hutty]

My goal is create a hierarchial dataset with parent child relationship. What
I thought would be an easy task has turned out to be quite difficult. In the
financial world you see many grids with parent/child relationship. However,
my search of the web has not reveal anything that can easily be done.

I tried the nested gridview. Now I am looking into the Repeater. Is it
possible to have the parent repeater display more than one column from an
sqldatasource? I am looking to creat something like this:

Company Col1 Col2 Col3 .....
AAAAA 20 40 60
Child1 15 22 43
Child2 5 18 17

BBBBB 10 15 20
Child1 2 11 9
Child2 8 4 11

I have been working with this for weeks as a beginner. Keep getting turned
around. Any ideas? thanks

 

[sloan]

If you have a known number of levels in the hierarchy, you can create a
"nested repeater".
Just google it.

If you have a unknown number, look at implementing your own version of
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.ihierarchydata.aspx
IHierarchyData

...

 

[Hutty]

I have played around with the repeater enough to run a couple of different
sample applications. However, none have demonstrated the ability to expand on
the display of the parent repeater where it equals the child repeater. That's
the look I am trying to accomplish.

 

[sloan]

You can try this:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/091504-1.aspx

If that doesn't help, then I don't have anything.


Another (in general) useful article:
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2007/10/01/asp-net-and-hierarchical-data.aspx

 

[gerry]

using repeater :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306154

if you are working with asp.net 3.5 - ListView is the way to go for most
data binding scenarios :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/magazine/cc337898.aspx?pr=blog
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/magazine/cc500643.aspx?pr=blog

I have used ListView for unknown/unlimited levels of nesting.