Hi I have an issue that I just can't seem to find anything online about;

I'm using a drop down list retrieved from a table for my password recovery questions which stores the question ID in the membership table. Therefore the password recovery control displays this ID so I need to be able to lookup and set the question text when someone uses password recovery.

Can this even be done? I've managed to retrieve the question text by handling the PreRender event of the control but PasswordRecovery1.Question is a read only property.

Any help appreciated.

That was the problem i have been facing..hope it is solved soon..

As a temporary (I hope) work around, when binding the question drop down I set both the text and value fields to the question text. Not great because on the page the text is loaded in both drop down fields and in the Membership table it stores the full question text for each user - but at least the proper question is displayed.

I'm hoping I will find a way to override the password recovery by looking it up from the ID in the Question field and setting it to the Question. Haven't found a solution yet though.

Can't you assign the ID to the value and the question to the text of the drop down list?

Imar

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Hi Imar,

I have found that the question control on the registration screen uses the value field (I'm guessing because it's natively a text box) so when assigning the ID/text to value/text of the drop down respectively it saves the ID so I used the following work around so it stores the question text instead:

CreateUserWizard1.Question = question.SelectedItem.Text.ToString();

Problem is I'd much rather store the ID and then lookup the text from the table for the password recovery to display it.

I have managed to handle the PreRender on the recovery control but PasswordRecovery1.Question is a read only property. It seems crazy that you need to store the question text each time and can't opt for an ID, any one with a drop down list would just store repeating text in their database.

The control is over 8 years old, so I guess back then they felt it was enough to have only a single question.

You may get away with sub classing the control and providing your own logic.

Cheers,

Imar

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Its totally depends on your logic and requirements of project so that we will be able to implement on same.