Datagrid label events

[TomTT]

I have worked on this for a few days but just can't find a good approach.

I have a datagrid with a template item label. I want to be able to click on the label and open a new window that would show some detail regarding the selected record.

I though about using a click event, but that is client side and I need to access some server side controls.

What I think I need is a way to access a server side sub on the click event, then gather the needed control information and include it in a querystring when doing a response.redirect to the new page.

I've sort of gotten lost in thinking about this and would appreciate any suggested approaches that might work.

Thanks
Tom T

 

[LV]

You'll probably be better off using LinkButtons instead of labels and using the OnItemCommand event of a data grid.

 

[TomTT]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I had thought about link buttons, but hadn't actually tried it. I did try setting different datagrid columns visible property to true or false to get a custom view of the data (order information, address information, billing information) depending on what the user was doing at the moment. This appears to work well and is a clean look.

The only trick was on editing and updating. If a column is not visible, you can't grab the value of it's textbox (it is nothing).

Thanks again
TT