I am looking for something similar to "subform" in Access. I have a main ASP page that is linked to a "PO" record and I need to have a subordinate ASP page linked to a new or (one to many) existing "Item" records that have their foreign key linked to the "PO" record. It would be pretty straight forward to link from the main ASP page to the subordinate ASP page but I need to have both pages displayed on the screen at the same time for the user because the user may want to make changes on both. Also some fields on the main ASP page are populated by data from the subordinate page. I think it would be odd to have the user jump back and forth between the two screens if we had to display them seperately.

Does any of this make sense?

Since I have received no reply to my questions, I take it that there is nothing really equivalent in ASP.NET to what I'm looking for. From my further exploration, it seems that the best alternative is to open a new window for entering the details for each item. That way a user could simply click on whichever window the user wished to see.
It apears that the command for doing so is "open method (windows)" with the command window.open(...). Is this the recommended way for opening a new window without closing the current window?

Hi there,

The search terms you're looking for is "master detail asp.net:. If you search for that on Google or Bing you'll find manu useful examples.

It comes down to associating a List control like a GridView with a details control (like DetailsView or FormView). When the selecting changes in the list, you can update the details control.

Cheers.

Imar

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Imar,
This is just what I was looking for. I did a search on Google as you suggested. I found a youtube video "ASP.NET Grid - Master-Detail Presentation - YouTube" which was great. It moves very quickly so I'm sure I'll have to watch it many times before I can absorb it all.
Many thanks...

Great; glad you find something useful.

Cheers,

Imar

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