Hello and TIA:

I have an asp.net page with two drop down controls.

The page allows insertion of data and once the data is inserted comes back to the same page for the possibility of further data insertion

The first time I enter data using both drop down controls all is well.

Any succeeding iteration of inserting data into the page, the first drop down list continues to show all options, but the second shows no options. I must go back to my "main menu" and re-enter the insertion page in order for the second drop down control to be "re-populated."

I've looked for differences in how the two are set up as they "should be" similar, but have not been successful.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Cliff

I might add that the two drop down controls are completely independent of one another.

My DetailsView (where the two drop down boxes are located) is inside of a table.

After data Insertion or a Cancel command my page with table is re-drawn as smaller in horizontal size and I must reload the page in order for my table to be large enough (horizontally) to accommodate the second drop down box correctly. The rest of my page (outside table) is re-drawn correctly.

In essence, I must re-load the page from my menu in order to see my second drop down box and it's contents a second time. If my Insertion or Cancel re-draws the page rather than clicking on the menu item to re-load the page my table is a different (smaller) size.

Thanks

After an Insert or Cancel I'm just not re-connecting with the data source for the second drop down list. I must reload the page from my Main Menu.

Continued thanks, I'm getting there.

Hi all:

I apologize for taking up any of your time, but it has always helped me to talk it out, sometimes via text as to what my coding problem is.

After a good night's sleep and a heavy workout(to think) today, refreshed I solved my problem. Easy actually, of course after one has fixed things it always looks easy.

In my code behind file I merely added two Response.Redirect lines, one in my DetailsView1_ItemInserted method (at the end of the method) and one in my DetailsView1_ModeChanging method.

The first fixed by Insert button reload page issue to give me my DropDown list entries and the second fixed by issue for the Cancel button to also reload the page and thus reconnect with my DataSource for the DropDown list.

All is well,
Love all of Imar's books. I've read them all

Cliff