Formatting Row Colours dependant on a field- FIXED

Andrew.Berry · December 11th, 2007, 09:34 AM

Hi,

I have been asked to create a page, that brings through data from a table into a gridview. (The easy bit :P)

Now for the difficult bit, they want each rows' background/text colours different dependant on text values of one of the attributes (which is in the gridview).

I haven't the foggiest how to do this, as I don't know how to access the data in the GridView, to then perform my check (which will be a basic nested if statement)

Any Ideas?

gbianchi · December 11th, 2007, 09:42 AM

well you can check the type of data that is entering into a row in the gridview datarow created event, and you can change the fore and back color, and everything else there...

HTH

Gonzalo

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Andrew.Berry · December 11th, 2007, 10:54 AM

How would I go about accessing the data in the row? I have been playing about but am having difficulty,

cheers

gbianchi · December 11th, 2007, 10:58 AM

Google to the rescue.. second hit.. try this:
http://weblogs.asp.net/hpreishuber/a...09/434889.aspx

HTH

Gonzalo

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Andrew.Berry · December 11th, 2007, 11:28 AM

Code:

 
public void GridView1_RowDataBound(Object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            String status = (String)((System.Data.DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem)["LastOpDesc"];

            if (status.Contains("Artwork"))
            {
                e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
            }
            else if (status.Contains("Printing"))
            {
                e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
            }
            else if (status.Contains("Finishing"))
            {
                e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
            }
            else if (status.Contains("Guillotine Trim"))
            {
                e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;
            }
            else e.Row.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gray;
        }


    }

This is the code I am currently being used, but it doesn't apear to do anything at the moment, the grid is just its default background colour.

Any Clues?

Andrew.Berry · December 11th, 2007, 12:47 PM

Sorted, forgot to reference the OnRowBound event in my gridview

December 13th, 2007, 05:59 AM

Interesting topic

happy to read this..
cheers.

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