Is there a way to switch on and off the edititem part of a itemtemplatecolumn in a datagrid based on what the origonal value of the cell is?

In other words I have a column and when you click edit it becomes a dropdownlist. but if the origional value of the cell is " don't mess with this cell" then I wan't to disable that dropdown list. but there are other columns in the row that would need editing so I can't just disable the edit.

Thanks
Raif

Hey,

You can switch on and off the edit part of the column as you specified, but to do what you want to do, I don't know. You can access an entire column through the DataGrid.Columns collection, which allows you to set visibility. In addition, to access a specific row, use DataGrid.Items(index) to access the items in a DataGrid. JavaScript may be a need for this to work also.

Brian

Oh also, for controls in a datagrid, use findcontrol, as such:

DataGrid.Items(0).Cells(0).FindControl("controlnam e")

Ok, that's cool, I could probably just switch off visibily so you couldn't see the ddl but I would need to use an if than statment to determin whether to turn it on or off. Is there a way to do this in a datagrid? that is since my ddl is called in the html I don't know how to use a logical statment.
Thanks for the help
Raif

You will need to utilize the ItemDataBound event of the datagrid to manipulate particular cells of a particular row (datagriditem) in the datagrid. Do a search for "ItemDataBound" on this forum, there are several threads addressing this type of technique.

Great that worked. Thanks for the help!
Raif