Ok, I am having a tough time understanding how to do this. I have a series of names that I pull from a database and then display as hyperlinks.

When a user clicks on a name I want to be able to open a detailed page with that "names" information. I've read about PostBackURL but is does not seem to work with a hyperlink. Is there a specific control that I need to use?

Thanks for the help

What do you have so far?

Usually this is just done with hyperlinks to the details page that define a userid on it in the query string. Then you get the id from the query string over on the detail page and serve up whatever details you want to show. Just look at the user names next to the posts in this thread... your's comes up as this: http://p2p.wrox.com/pop_profile.asp?...splay&id=58645


-Peter

Ok here is what I am trying to do: I have generated a datalist of Company Names that appear as hyperlinks, then when the user clicks on a company link the client's page should open up. I am trying to tailor the navigate URL to include the PKClient for the look up but I keep getting the following error: Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'Eval' accepts this number of arguments.


Here is the code that I am trying to use:
<ItemTemplate>
                <asp:HyperLink ID="ClientName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ClientName") %>' NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("PKClient", "ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient={0}" %>'></asp:HyperLink>
            </ItemTemplate>

Thanks for the help

Eval is meant to reference a column in the datasource, it only takes one argument: the column name.

This is not valid
<%# Eval("PKClient", "ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient={0}" %>

I might suggest adding a column to your datasource that contains the necessary link.

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My datasource does contain the PKClient.

"SELECT Client.ClientName, Client.PKClient FROM Client"

I think the issue is with how to build the navigate url to contain the PKClient.

This code attempts to open a page with the URL of "PKClient" and works. Although, the URL only contains the PKClient and not the page reference.
<ItemTemplate>
                <asp:HyperLink ID="ClientNameLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ClientName") %>' NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("PKClient") %>'>
                </asp:HyperLink><br />

I just can't get the URL to have both the base URL plus the changing PKClient

To get the url with the correct pk do something like this:

"SELECT Client.ClientName, 'ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient=' + Client.PKClient as URL FROM Client"

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Thanks, that did the trick.

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I hate to spoil the fun, but I wouldn't recommend doing this.

First of all, Eval *does* have an overload that allows you to format the expression: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2d76z3ck.aspx

The DataBinder class has two overloads: one that accepts the object and a single string (the name of the property on the object) and another one that accepts an additional format expression.

Snuffles: the code you posted was, as Doug said, invalid. However, this isn't because Eval doesn't have an overload, but because you were missing a ):

NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("PKClient", "ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient={0}"%>'

should be

NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("PKClient", "ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient={0}")%>'

Notice the additional ) between the " and the %. You just forgot to close the call to Eval.

With the ) in place, your example will run fine.

Personally, I would never hard code the path in my select statement against the database. It makes it really hard to reuse the same code in a different scenario. It also makes it near impossible for others to find out why a certain page redirects to some location. Using the Format expression as you posted is, IMO, the best way to go.
As an alternative, you could have also used simple string concatenation:

NavigateUrl='<%# "ClientSummary.aspx?PKClient=" + Eval("PKClient") %>'>


Hope this helps,

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