Forms Data Controls :: Cannot Get FindControl To Locate Label Inside Repeater
Apr 14, 2010
I have a label control inside of repeater and I can't seem to get FindControl to locate the label inside of the repeater or even the repeater itself. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. OnItemDataBound is firing because "hello1" is being written but if I put anything inside of the For Next loop of rptMarketFundamentals, nothing is run inside of it.
<asp:Repeater id="rptMarketFundmentals" runat="server" DataSourceID="dsMarketFundamentals" OnItemDataBound="rptMarketFundamentals_ItemDataBound">
<asp:Label ID="lblOwnershipCategory" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("OwnershipCategory") %>' />
</asp:Repeater>
Sub rptMarketFundamentals_ItemDataBound(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As RepeaterItemEventArgs)
Response.Write("hello1") 'this works
Dim dataItem As RepeaterItem
For Each dataItem In rptMarketFundmentals.Items
Response.Write("hello2") 'this does not work
Dim lblOwnershipCategory As Label = CType(dataItem.FindControl("lblOwnershipCategory"), Label)
If lblOwnershipCategory.Text.ToLower = "family firm" Then blOwnershipCategory.CssClass = "highlight"
End If
Next
End Sub
I am loading the autocomplete extender properly but I need the PK from the selectedValue. I have looked at other examples and they do NOT show how to drill into the tabcontainer, then drill into the listview, and then locate the extender value. Here is what I have so far. My "TABCONTAINER" value shows the extender correctly but I am unable to locate it.
I have a button on a page with a Repeater and an ObjectDataSource. To give credit where credit is due, the Repeater's paging functionality is courtesy of ScottGu. (However, I'm using ASP.NET 4.0 and SQL Server 2008, as opposed to ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.)
Anyway, in the button's click event, I need to access the Text property of a Label that's inside the Repeater because it's used as an input parameter in a stored procedure. I'm getting a NullReferenceException when trying to access the Label's Text property. I have researched this error and have tried a few different solutions (involving FindControl and the Repeater's ItemDataBound event), but I haven't been able to get it to work. The code is below.
My problem is as follows. I have a custom GridView control where I generate the Template fields for each column. I'm using someone elses class that extends the Itemplate and returns lables for ItemTemplate, and TextBoxes for EditTemplate.
I need this in order to implement bulk edit for the gridview where users press button Edit and all fields become textboxes, they can then change the values, and click Update button at which point I need to be able to retrieve the values from the TextBoxes in these Template Fields.
What I have tried thus far: when user clicks Edit button, my dynamic code builds the columns and specifies that the Template field is an EditTemplate, it then adds these columns to the grid view. The gridview shows the textboxes with all values retrieved from sqldatasource.
When I press the Update button, the page does a postback, as I can see Page_Load event fire, I check for a flag that I previously set when the Edit button was pressed (I store it's value in View State) and call the Update method.
In it I iterate throught the gridview rows collection, check that the RowType of each row is DataRow and call GridView.UpdateRow(i, false), passing each rows index to the UpdateRow method.At this point I have tried everything I can to find the values stored in the textboxes, but I cannot find any of the textbox controls.
I've tried using the current row's FindControl method and specifying the name of the textbox field,I've tried using Request.Params method where I can tried passing the client id, as it seen in the View Source of the page such as this
Request.Params["grid1$gvData$ctl02$MMCODE"]
Still no luck, I've tried going up an down the Row's cells, controls collections, it seem to list the counts for rows correctly, the same goes for the amount of cells for each row, but at no point was I able to actually locate any controls such as textboxes or anything else and retrieve any values from them.
After I add a new author I am displaying the author inside the gridview in an Accordian and I need to expand the accordian for this one record, in the btn_AddAuthor event I am trying this:
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the problem that I am having is that nothing happens: , the accordian is not expanded but I need it to be expanded.
I have a user control that displays a shopping cart in an ecommerce application.
The main cart display is a repeater that renders as a html table. In one of those table columns, there is another repeater to display people associated with the products int he cart (it's a repeater in case there is a line item >1 with multiple people).
I've added an ImageButton that I want to use to change the person associated with the item. At first, when I'd click on it I was getting this error:
Invalid postback or callback argument. Event validation is enabled using <pages enableEventValidation="true"/> in configuration or <%@ Page EnableEventValidation="true" %> in a page. For security purposes, this feature verifies that arguments to postback or callback events originate from the server control that originally rendered them. If the data is valid and expected, use the ClientScriptManager.RegisterForEventValidation method in order to register the postback or callback data for validation.
So as an experiment I disabled EventValidation on the page (not the control it's self) and now I do not get an error, but I also do not ever hit the breakpoint I set in the innermost repeater's ItemCommand event.
So I wonder how I might do this without disabling EventValidation, because this control will show up on multiple pages and we don't want to edit them all. Also, I'll need to know not only the repeater containing the control's row that the event came from but also the row index of the repeater containg this one. Is this possible?
what changed do I need to make to my code for it to achieve what I'm after.
At the moment I am getting a "cannot cast to type" error message with the below code.
I have also tried calling the ItemDataBound method in with the parent repeater tags and had no errors but when I clicked on the button it would just move back to the top of the page and would not hide or show any data. Also I have made the div style to none but the first record still shows its child but the rest don't.
I need to assign string to repeater label on button click but it is showing error object reference not set
//Label date = (Label)Repeater.FindControl("ltpl_datefor"); Label date = Repeater.Items[0].FindControl("ltpl_datefor") as Label; date.Text = dateforloop.ToString().Substring(0);
Lets say I have the above situation, and I need to update the appropriate label based upon which button is clicked. I have no idea how to do this. I can find a label via: (Label)Repeater2.Controls[0].Controls[0].FindControl("Label1");
But that only gives me the same label each time (so no matter which button I click the same lablel gets updated). How would I find the correct label to update?
how can i set the max-width of the label field, and use multiple line if the text length larger than max-width in the templateitem of repeater. i set the width to 10, but can't fix the length.
I have a repeater set up which takes all records from a SQL DB table and displays. One of the items in this repeater is a Label. The Label's job is to display the 'Responded' field of the database, which is a 'bit' Datatype.
However, when the label displays naturally, it will show TRUE or FALSE. As this is not appropriate for the end-user they would prefer If True = Completed and if False = Outstanding.
I have written the script to do this in an ItemDataBound field, so that (hope my understanding of itemdatabound is correct), everytime a record is found it checks to see what the value is in responded field and 'if true then do X else do Y'.
However, when I have ran it through debug mode it shows that the Label Text of the label is just "". Therefore it will always show 'Outstanding'. In addition, the AssociatedControlID is also blank (""), although I am unsure whether this would present a problem or not.
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If any extra information is required I'll do my best to provide it.
I am trying to locate a label on a content page from within User Control(ascx)
Page p = this.Page; //this line causes application to unload with no exception ContentPlaceHolder cp = (ContentPlaceHolder)p.Master.FindControl("Content2"); Label label = (Label)cp.FindControl("SomeLabel");
It just unloads itself with no exception mesage. Why does it happen?
aspects of some controls in Code Behind (VB) with controls inside a datalist and/or repeater. I have read a lot of stuff on using some tricks but none seem to work so far. I am new to ASP.net so some of the explanations are too cryptic as well. Below is a section of code that I am trying to change. This example is attempting to make the label visible if the dataitem is true and hidden if false. No matter what I seem to do I cann't reference this label to change. I also want to change the text on some other controls in this dataitem if the returned value is a certain value.
I generate dynamically an usercontrol, the user write the quantity, 3 or 4 or 5, press generate and get N controls to fill with cars parts.I need get the values inside any textboxes but the method find never found the controls...I am using this code to generate dynamically my controls:
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when the controls is loaded into the WizardStep, I need to find it to get the values inserted by the user in the textboxes.
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but I never find the control always is null, I place it inside a Panel called UnidadesPanel.
