I have a gridview in an ASP.NET site.
There's a TemplateField right now that works fine - this is a survey form, and by default questions are answered using textboxes:
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="" Visible="True" >
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtAnswer" Text='<%# Bind("Answer") %>' runat="server"
TextMode="MultiLine" Height="76px" MaxLength="2000" Width="377px">
</asp:TextBox>
</ItemTemplate>
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtAnswer" Text='<%# Bind("Answer") %>' runat="server"
TextMode="MultiLine" Height="76px" MaxLength="2000" Width="377px">
</asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
The requirement is to now add new questions that may be answered by dropdownlists. I've got an idea on how to do this (passing the question number into a function and checking for the presence of dropdown answers that are stored in another table), but I'm struggling with dynamically updating the templatefield based on the question type...any suggestions?
UPDATE
I managed to get this partially working through a helper function. (Probably not my best code, but it's almost getting the job done) The thing is I get a string that's telling me the type in my output instead of the actual controls (Textboxes or dropdownlists, respectively)...how can I correct that?
public Control GetAnswerControl(string QuestionID, string Answer)
{
List<ListItem> lstOptions = new List<ListItem>();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("pDropDownAnswers_Get", functions.NewSupplierRequest);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.Parameters.Add("@QuestionID", SqlDbType.Int);
cmd.Parameters["@QuestionID"].Value = Int32.Parse(QuestionID);
try
{
functions.NewSupplierRequest.Open();
SqlDataReader r = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (r.Read())
{
lstOptions.Add(new ListItem(r["DropDownAnswer"].ToString(), r["DropDownAnswer"].ToString()));
}
}
catch (Exception err)
{
this.lblError.Text = err.Message;
}
finally
{
functions.NewSupplierRequest.Close();
}
if (lstOptions.Count == 0)
{
TextBox tb = new TextBox();
tb.ID = "txtAnswer";
tb.Text = Answer;
tb.TextMode = TextBoxMode.MultiLine;
tb.Height = 76;
tb.Width = 377;
tb.MaxLength = 2000;
return tb;
}
else
{
DropDownList dl = new DropDownList();
dl.DataSource = lstOptions;
dl.DataBind();
dl.SelectedValue = Answer;
return dl;
}
}