I tried to enclose part of a Formview in a Panel but it does not work.

First, I tried "spanning the tags" over the desired fields in Markup/Source, but there was an error message about Panel unable to span templates (never mind that it was just the InsertItem Template alone in use).

Then, I went to edit templates => InsertItems, and there, drew a box around the desired fields. It seemed to take, but when I inserted a Checkbox to control the Panel, and went to write the code, "Panel1" could not be found by intellisense, so I could not successfully complete the process.

Question: Can Panel Control live on Formview configured to hide just part of the form? If so, how?

Thanks in advance.
Oguchi

You can't access the control in the FormView directly; you need to use FindControl on the relevant template.

Google for FindControl FormView and you'll find some useful articles.

Cheers,

Imar

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