Refresh/Redirect to a particular Formview Page Index?

richard10002 · #1 (**permalink**) June 29th, 2009, 08:22 PM

I have a page with a Gridview and FormView and a button which uploads an image file to a folder, (the FormView contains the file as an image).

The ButtonClick satisfactorily uploads the file, but a viewer has to refresh the page to see the new picture, which is not what I expect them to have to do.

here is the code that renames the file and saves it, after some previous code has uploaded it from a viewers drive... it also tries using response.redirect, but this merely opens a new page at the first record of the FormView:

Code:

Public Sub SaveFile2(ByVal FileUp As FileUpload)
 
 Dim fileName1 As String = String.Format("{0}.jpg", FormView1.DataKey.Value)
 Dim filePath1 As String = Server.MapPath("~/Dogimages/" & fileName1)
        FileUp.SaveAs(filePath1)
        Response.Redirect("Dogsdata.aspx#formview")
 
 
    End Sub

What could I use to refresh the page to renew the image, and open the new page at the record with the new image?

The Formview1.Datakey.Value is the PrimaryKey ID of the record, so if I could capture that and use it to somehow make the page open at the record with that ID, that would be a solution... I just dont know how to do it.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants here, so detailed explanation would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

Richard

Imar · #2 (**permalink**) July 4th, 2009, 05:09 AM

Hi there,

Can you show more code here? It's not entirely clear when your data gets updated or how your page is set up.

Typically, however, when you want to refresh your data, you call DataBind on the relevant control. So, if you want to refresh a GridView you call:

myGridView.DataBind()

from your Button's Click handler (or from another location where it makes sense)

This forces the control to get and display updated data.

Hope this helps,

Imar

richard10002 · #3 (**permalink**) July 4th, 2009, 08:36 PM

Hi Imar,

Many Thanks!! That's done the trick.... I've got rid of the Response.Redirect, and the code now reads:

Code:


ProtectedSub SaveFile2(ByVal FileUp As FileUpload)
Dim fileName1 AsString = String.Format("{0}.jpg", FormView1.DataKey.Value)
Dim filePath1 AsString = Server.MapPath("~/Dogimages/" & fileName1)
FileUp.SaveAs(filePath1)
FormView1.DataBind()
EndSub

and it works fine - loads the image, and refreshes it with no further action on the users part.

I wonder if you could help with "refreshing" the page so that it opens at the Formview, which is halfway down the page, rather than at the Gridview, which is at the top of the page? This would save the user having to scroll down the page to see the image they have just uploaded.

Do you still want to see more code? (I may have confused the issue by referring to a DetailsView in my original post :( . I've edited it now to refer to FormView... which is what I meant - apologies

Many Thanks

Richard

Imar · #4 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 04:58 AM

Hi Richard,

You can try setting the MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...npostback.aspx This automatically scrolls back the page to where it was when you posted it back.

If that's not good enough (e.g. you need to scroll to a different position) take a look here:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/111704-1.aspx

It explains how to implement MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback before it was added to the Page class and gives you some ideas on implementing something like this.

Cheers,

Imar

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