Hello,

I hope I can explain what I need to do.  When I am pulling records out of a
database, I am using the datagrid controls to display the data.  But in each
row, I would like to add another field that will allow the user to click and
go to another script with the id field from each row in it.  In asp I would
have accomplished this as follow (pseudocode)

select id, name, email from table
for each row
create link to viewlead.asp?id=rs("id"), display name, display email
movenext
loop

I am not understanding how asp.net creates the viewlead.asp?id part for each
row.  Thanks for the help!

Adam Harris

Adam,

	Set the AutoGenerateColumns attribute of your datagrid to false.
Then, on the ASP.NET page insert a <Columns>-tag in the Datagrid, then
insert a <asp:HyperLinkColumn>-tag in the <Columns>-tag with the
following attributes:

	DataNavigateUrlField="id" and
DataNavigateUrlFormatString="viewlead.asp?id={0}"

	So your final DataGrid might look something like this:

<asp:DataGrid id="DevicesTable" runat="server"
AutoGenerateColumns="False">
	<HeaderStyle Font-Bold="True" BackColor="#E0E0E0"></HeaderStyle>
	<Columns>
		<asp:BoundColumn DataField="strEmail" HeaderText="Email
Address">
		</asp:BoundColumn>
		<asp:BoundColumn DataField="strName" HeaderText="Name">
		</asp:BoundColumn>
		<asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlField="id"
DataNavigateUrlFormatString="viewlead.asp?id={0}" DataTextField="id"
HeaderText="ID"></asp:HyperLinkColumn>
	</Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>

Hope it works,
Minh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Harris [mailto:adam@w...] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:54 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Creating Links with asp.net


Hello,

I hope I can explain what I need to do.  When I am pulling records out
of a
database, I am using the datagrid controls to display the data.  But in
each
row, I would like to add another field that will allow the user to click
and
go to another script with the id field from each row in it.  In asp I
would
have accomplished this as follow (pseudocode)

select id, name, email from table
for each row
create link to viewlead.asp?id=rs("id"), display name, display email
movenext
loop

I am not understanding how asp.net creates the viewlead.asp?id part for
each
row.  Thanks for the help!

Adam Harris

Minh, thank you for the help.  It worked like a charm.  I have two other
questions.  When I use the code you gave me, I cause the number out of the
database to show up on my page.  Instead, I would like the text "View Leads"
to show up.  Is there another field I can add that will allow me to do this?
Also, I would like to add a radio button to each row with the id in it.
Asp.net keeps telling me it's not in the datagrid collection.  Could
someone, please help further.  You guys are great!  Have a great day!

Adam Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: Minh T. Nguyen [mailto:nguyentriminh@y...]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:10 AM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] RE: Creating Links with asp.net

Adam,

        Set the AutoGenerateColumns attribute of your datagrid to false.
Then, on the ASP.NET page insert a <Columns>-tag in the Datagrid, then
insert a <asp:HyperLinkColumn>-tag in the <Columns>-tag with the
following attributes:

        DataNavigateUrlField="id" and
DataNavigateUrlFormatString="viewlead.asp?id={0}"

        So your final DataGrid might look something like this:

<asp:DataGrid id="DevicesTable" runat="server"
AutoGenerateColumns="False">
        <HeaderStyle Font-Bold="True" BackColor="#E0E0E0"></HeaderStyle>
        <Columns>
                <asp:BoundColumn DataField="strEmail" HeaderText="Email
Address">
                </asp:BoundColumn>
                <asp:BoundColumn DataField="strName" HeaderText="Name">
                </asp:BoundColumn>
                <asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlField="id"
DataNavigateUrlFormatString="viewlead.asp?id={0}" DataTextField="id"
HeaderText="ID"></asp:HyperLinkColumn>
        </Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>

Hope it works,
Minh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Harris [mailto:adam@w...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:54 PM
To: aspx_beginners
Subject: [aspx_beginners] Creating Links with asp.net


Hello,

I hope I can explain what I need to do.  When I am pulling records out
of a
database, I am using the datagrid controls to display the data.  But in
each
row, I would like to add another field that will allow the user to click
and
go to another script with the id field from each row in it.  In asp I
would
have accomplished this as follow (pseudocode)

select id, name, email from table
for each row
create link to viewlead.asp?id=rs("id"), display name, display email
movenext
loop

I am not understanding how asp.net creates the viewlead.asp?id part for
each
row.  Thanks for the help!

Adam Harris

Adam,

>When I use the code you gave me, I cause the number out of the
> database to show up on my page.  Instead, I would like the text
> "View Leads" to show up.  Is there another field I can add that
> will allow me to do this?


Try the following. I think this should work, I don't have access to a .NET 
computer right now to test this, but this should work:

<asp:HyperLinkColumn DataNavigateUrlField="id"
DataNavigateUrlFormatString="viewlead.asp?id={0}" Text="View Leads"
HeaderText="Link"></asp:HyperLinkColumn>

Good luck! As for adding radio buttons, sorry, I don't know how to do 
this. Check out gotdotnet.com or post your question there again. I find 
that place to be very resourceful.

Minh.