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9/17/2007 12:28 AM
 
efridine

Joined: 9/4/2007
Posts: 20
Does anyone know how to get AJAX to work inside of a tag in a Formview control?

Here's the complication:

In order to get access to buttons in a Formview template, I've had to declare a PreRender for the FormView and disable/enable the buttons in there like this:

protected void FormView1_PreRender(Object sender, System.EventArgs e) {

if (this.FormView1.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.ReadOnly)
{
((LinkButton)this.FormView1.FindControl("ItemUpdateButton")).Visible = true;

}}

You can't just manipulate the button called ItemUpdateButton because it doesn't exist until the Formview template it's defined in is called. Then you have to use FindControl to search for the name of the button and cast it as LinkButton for example (if anyone has a better way I'd love to know)

So now I want to add an Ajax TabContainer (from the AJAX Toolkit) inside of a Formview so I can break up data entry and make things look nicer with tabs. You can't add the TabContainer outside of the Formview because then you can't define individual TabContainers inside... However the TabContainer doesn't exist until Formview loads and I can't wrap it in an UpdatePanel. If I try to call something like the following on a Page_Load, it won't compile because the TabContainer ID is not defined. This is the same problem with buttons which is why I have to use FindControl...

if (DotNetNuke.Framework.AJAX.IsInstalled())
{
DotNetNuke.Framework.AJAX.RegisterScriptManager();
DotNetNuke.Framework.AJAX.WrapUpdatePanelControl(EditItemTabContainer, true);
}

I'm trying to figure out how to wrap this in the FormView PreRender. I see the methods

Control DotNetNuke.Framework.AJAX.ContentTemplateContainerControl(objectUpdatePanel );
Control DotNetNuke.Framework.AJAX.CreateUpdatePanelControl();

but I can't figure out what they do. Is there an equivalent FindControl? I've tried doing a FindControl like I did with the buttons and typecasting as (Control) but with no luck. I'm finding an object of type AjaxControlToolkit.TabContainer when I call FindControl, but I can;t figure out what to cast it to.

any help would be greatly appreciated, I can send someone the full code if anyone's interested
 
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9/19/2007 3:44 PM
 
efridine

Joined: 9/4/2007
Posts: 20

this drove me nuts, so I did it a much easier way. instead of having a <FormView> with an embedded <ajaxtoolkit:TabContainer> i made an <ajaxtoolKit:TabContainer> where each tab has it's own <FormView>. It works well although sometimes i get some weirdness when switching tabs, the data doesn't alway refresh in the tabs.
 
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