Basically, I have a web app which has a step-by-step flow. So the user
fills a form, hits next and is taken to the next page, where the user
enters more information in form. There are around 5 steps for the user
to complete. Each step is on a different page.

The problem is that at any point the user should be able to go back
and see what he has filled in the previous screens.
How should this be achieved? Should I cache (at client?) the pages
completed by the user, so when the user hits the browser back button,
the pages with data is visible.
OR
Should I cache the viewstate of all the pages and check on every page
- if Viewstate Cache for that page exist, then get everything from
ViewState.
OR
There s any other recommender solution!!!!
Thanks

You can make a user control for each page you have now and leave the
ViewState of the page worry about the persistance of the input.

The problem with this situation is that the ViewState for the page gets
quite large. I recommend either enabling http compression on the information
server or storing the ViewState on the server.

Hope this helps
Martin
"DJ Dev" <ricky.arora (AT) icn (DOT) siemens.com> wrote

Thanks for the reply. How can I make a user control of the whole page
I am not sure if this will solve my problem. Would client caching help in my case
I need more guidance I guess

Thanks!

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i think you should make five panel ,and just hidden before and show next
panel when user fill the next form. when user go back,you can just show
before and hidden the current panel. it's simply

"DJ Dev" <ricky.arora (AT) icn (DOT) siemens.com> ????
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This is what I was going to suggest. I think it is a much better approach
than having 5 web pages.


"coollzh" <coollzh (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks for the replies guys. I started with Panels...but the problem is that my web App requires heavy processing and the code-behinds have lots n lots of lines with dynamic datagrids etc.

Integrating all this info into one file will be a big pain. Moreover designing with Panels is a very big pain
Anyother ideas?

Is there a way that the Viewstate of a page can be saved ( cache etc) or something and restored

Thanks!

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Try creating a class that contains the data for each page. Store the information into a session variable or as a XML file in a working folder. Use a unique ID as the file name. Pass that id across pages (QueryString).
As a new page is loaded with info, load the class and save the new data to this class. As an old page is recalled, pull the data from the class. At the end, get the data from the class and update your permanent data base.

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