I have a problem which can be sumarized in the following:
- UpdatePanel with a button
- Text box outside update panel
- Want button "click" method to update the text in the textbox.
How is this possible? I have read some suggestions (Luis Abreu suggests a "dummie button" with _DoPostBack. The problem is I am very new to asp so have no idea about where and how to place the code and have no idea about how javascript works in the page, so I did not underestand that solution nor how to implement it...
Any help is appreciated!
I've say you should put the things that you want updated inside the UpdatePanel, with a Trigger on the button click event. The button does not have to reside inside the UpdatePanel. So, your example should be reversed, with the UpdatePanel with a textbox and a button outside the UpdatePanel.Hi,
quick example that illustrates what senyl said above:
<%@. Page Language="C#" %><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><script runat="server"> protected void btnUpdate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { txtDate.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString(); }</script><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title></head><body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <atlas:ScriptManager ID="scriptManager" runat="server" EnablePartialRendering="true"></atlas:ScriptManager> <atlas:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server"> <Triggers> <atlas:ControlEventTrigger ControlID="btnUpdate" EventName="Click" /> </Triggers> <ContentTemplate> <asp:TextBox ID="txtDate" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> </ContentTemplate> </atlas:UpdatePanel> <asp:Button ID="btnUpdate" runat="server" Text="Update" OnClick="btnUpdate_Click" /> </form></body></html>
senyl:
I've say you should put the things that you want updated inside the UpdatePanel, with a Trigger on the button click event. The button does not have to reside inside the UpdatePanel. So, your example should be reversed, with the UpdatePanel with a textbox and a button outside the UpdatePanel.
The problem is that my real scenario is slightly more complicated:
One of the UpdatePanels is a GridView with a column which is a button for "add new row". As it is embedded in the gridview, I can't take it out.
The other updatePanel is a FormView that becomes visible when the former button is clicked. It then shows insert boxes and it has a "insert" button that also needs to be in the formview...to insert the record.
Well, my best advice is to watch that video by Scott Gutherie on the Atlas homepage, where he uses a gridview and a formview with atlas. You could also make the updatepanels render always, and code the triggers properly.
Hope this helps (it probably won't, but it is my best guess)
