Wizard control within AJAX Panel

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BJ

I had this crazy idea. We have an existing application that could
use
some rework. I was going to redo the application (currently ASP.Net
1.1) using ASP.Net 2.0:

Master page with Header, Footer, Side bar and Body
One of the content panels would use a Wizard control stepping the
user
through submitting an Ergonomic Review Request.


In test, this all work beautifully, but I'd like to take it one step
farther. Since the Wizard control allows me to have all of the form
variables available and does the navigation for me, I'd like to wrap
it with in an AJAX UpdatePanel control. This way I can minimize the
amount of postback to the server and still utilize the Wizards methods
and events.

The problem when i tried was my Wizard control is not recogized with
the AJAX control.

Any idea's?


Plan B would be to code HTML tables or panels with the ID's of
RequestPage1, RequestPage2, and RequestPage3 on one webform. When the
form opens for the first time, would set Page 1 visiable and page 2
and 3 not visible using JavaScript. The form would also have three
button controls. Each control would execute javascript to make a
panel visible or invisible.

This gives me the capability to suspend postback until the end when I
have to write the record to the database and send approprate emails.

Plan B works but I wanted to use the Wizard Control.
 
If you want the wizard to be fully AJAX enabled, you have to write a new
one. Simple bind controls are easy to AJAX enabled, but the wizard has
multiple steps, which is the problem child in this case.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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oooh. I haven't gotten to the point of developing my own. I would
imagine what I'm doing in Javascript could some how be "converted" or
used to develop an AJAX Wizard control or an AJAX Extender to the
ASP.NET control.

Again, the goal is to limit post back to a partial post back while
stepping through a Wizard control. I don't want to suspend postback.
I still want to be able to utilize the server side logic.
 
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