That's because the Label control is not marked with the ValidationProperty[^]. So you either a) customize the label control or b) use a invisible textbox to contain the value beside the Label so that you can validate the textbox.

Go into the source code and manually type in the "id" of the Label control. "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

You could have a wee look at this: http://www.joel.net/code/refresh_capture.aspx

You can set the Trace="true" in the Page directive to see the order of the Page's event. Here you want to display something after the SqlDataSource inserts a new row, so you should use the events after the insert command like PreRender.

I agree. What's your code?

Just open a table and then click on one of the toolbar buttons on the lower toolbar that appears. You have diagram, sql and criteria buttons. Kevin

Thanks. Majella

Thanks Majella

Use a regex validator instead and validate for ^([0-9](\.{0,1})([0-9]{0,4}))$ If you are storing 4 dp in the database, then your users may want to see all four at some point, so you might want to use a decimal datatype in .net and have some sort of formatting function for the front end.

Thanks - I had omitted to specify the container (FormView1). Was DropDownList myDropDownList = (DropDownList)FindControl("DropDownList1"); but should have been DropDownList myDropDownList = (DropDownList)FormView1.FindControl("DropDownList1"); Many thanks Majella

Thanks - that works great. I had a workaround assigning the index to a (hidden)label and then assigning the selected index value to the value of the label control. Your method is I think the best way! Thanks Maj

Got it. I was casting incorrectly. Method should look like: protected void FormView2_Sqldatasource2_Inserting(Object sender, SqlDataSourceCommandEventArgs e) { Label NewID = null; NewID = (Label)FormView1.FindControl("FormView1_ID"); SqlDataSource2.InsertParameters["FormView1_ID"].DefaultValue = NewID.Text; }

Oh - I got it. I missed the FormView part.

Thanks. That works. I had already tried FormView1.ChangeMode(FormViewMode.ReadOnly); in the event handler of the ItemInserted event of the FormView control and while degugging indicated that the mode was set to ReadOnly, the form presented following insert was a blank insert template. Something to do with Postback perhaps? Although I have a good working solution now I'd like to understand why the ChangeMode method didn't work. Any ideas? Thanks Maj

Sorry about the previous post. I had somehow managed to lose line 1 from my table which explains why the Selectcommand wasn't working - default for Selectparameters was set to 1. So it works! Great. Thank you so much minhpc_bk for all your help. I think this one might come in useful! Maj

May be your best bet would be to use a regular text input, and when you have your post, grab the value from the request information. I've done it this way all the time due to the id's that are given to controls inside a datagrid, that I think you are aware of. daniero

That depends on what you want: a button or an icon when the user clicks on it, the calendar will pop up for selection. There are lots of javascript calendar examples[^] out there that you can use. For example, for the button you can use the OnClientClick property to create an event handler for the client side onclick event, in the handler you can pop up a javascript calendar.