Need some creative geniuses on adding items to a grid

[sheykc]

I'm stuck on a problem, and I was hoping that someone here might have a good idea for me.

I have sales reps that need to be able to quickly add items the company sells, to a grid. The old cold fusion app had them type in an item number (or several item numbers) into a textbox and then it added the items to the page. But, if item #2 was typed incorrectly, then none of the items added. They were only separated by a space.

I was hoping to have more of a lookup feature. But, there are 29,000 items and loading into a dropdown is too slow for the load of the page.

Does anyone have any ideas of what approach I should consider?

Thanks for your help!

 

[ca8msm]

Lots of ways really:

1) simply have x number of textboxes that the users can enter seperate id's into (and validate each entry)
2) add them one at a time, with an autopostback that validates the entry
3) client callbacks to populate potential matching items into a listbox/dropdownlist/etc..

The most efficient way, in my opinion, would be #1 coupled with Validator controls (inclusing a summary validator).





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[sheykc]

I've never used the validator controls before, but would like to learn more about them. Do you have any reference sites that would explain how to use them?

I'm assuming javascript is involved with this?

Right now I'm trying to implement the method where after they type in a value in the textbox, they click the "AddItem" button. The AddItem click method validates the itemnumber. This doesn't allow for them to enter several at one time, before adding the items, but still gets the job done.

 

[ca8msm]

A simple search on google will show you some information on them:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+"ASP.NET"+Validator&meta=

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[sheykc]

I use google all the time. I was just hoping for some references of sites you already found to save some time of searching thru things that are sometimes irrelevant.

Thanks anyway.

 

[ca8msm]

The first site, from the search link above, is a good introduction to Validation controls so I suggest you take a look at that site.


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