I am trying to get pageA.aspx gridView to pass a key (say deptID) to
pageB.aspx which will use the value passed as a filter in it's own griView
query.
On pageA gridView I have a hyperlinkField with navigateURL property =
~/pageB.aspx?deptID={0} and it is bound to deptID (which is another column in
the grid). Also, the hyperlinkField it has its dataTextFormatString =
~/pageB.aspx?deptID={0}. PageB datasource has a where clause, where deptID =
{0}.
At runtime, the hyperlink appears to populate correctly with values such as
pageB.aspx?deptID=100, etc., byt when I click on it, pageB appears with the
token still set to deptID={0}.
I am new to webforms, can someone please help? Why doen't the
hyperLinkField pass the deptID value in the url token?
Thanks,
Jay

"Jay" <gunderj (AT) ommunity (DOT) nospam> wrote

Apparently, you have two different "run" times here. One where the hyperlink
is properly filled in, and one where it goes to the wrong place.

Perhaps you're looking on the server at the hyperlink control when you see
the correct value? Well, the client has an HTML anchor (<a>) element
instead. You should try to find the <a> on the cliekt-side page using View
Source or the IE Developer Toolbar, and see what the href attribute is set
to. I bet it's set to deptID={0}.

Then, all you'll have to do is figure out why that is. In particular, I'd be
interested to know which property you're looking at on the server where you
saw deptID=100.

John

John, you were corect, when I looked in the html source, it had deptID={0}
for each row in the gridView. But I had set the hyperLink's dataTextfield =
deptID which is another column in the gridView. Shouldn't this bring in the
department IDs?
--
Jay


"John Saunders" wrote: