I have a datagrid that renders a paged list of article descriptions. these descriptions are linked (hyperlink control) to the url of the actual story. So, when i click on the link, a new window opens and the complete article is displayed. WHAT I Want to do is when I click the link, i want the article to display in either a table on the same page or a table on another page in the same app. how do I do this? i've been playing with the target and data/nav attributes, response.redirect, and other property of the datagrid and hyperlink controls, and i get close, but can't seem to fine tune it. please help if you can. happy to provide code examples if needed. karinb

I truly appreciate your solution, just wish i could figure out how to implement it. i should have mentioned i'm developing in c#. Here's what I've tried to do with your sample: --this is in my Page_Load--- --creates an instance of a checkbox and dynamically populates inline with the list of users and sets its value to the same as the pk of the associated dataset--- CheckBox cboCheck = new CheckBox(); cboCheck.AutoPostBack = false; cboCheck.ID = dsUserInfo.Tables[0].Rows[intCtr]["intMailIDpk"].ToString(); ---Event Handler public void btnEdit_Click(object sender,System.EventArgs e) { --->getting error message at this line: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.-- Int16 ckID = Convert.ToInt16(cboCheck.ID); cboCheck.ID = Convert.ToString(cboCheck.FindControl("ckID")); Server.Transfer("addedit.aspx?&ckID=" + ckID.ToString(), false);--probably need to user Response.Redirect here, you think??-- } any help is greatly appreciated. i'm sure i'm just one line of code off here, and then my app works great. karinb -- modified at 15:11 Tuesday 9th May, 2006

as a newbie, I have developed a simple administrative app that lists members of our mailing list. ON the viewing page, checkboxes are dynamically listed along with the member info. When one checks a box and clicks 'edit', i want the item checked to open into the edit page with it's appropriate data. Problem: I can get the checkbox associated to an id number on the viewing page. I just can't seem to figure out how to send that id and data to the edit page. any help or suggestions would be great. can provide code examples if needed. karinb karinb

as a newbie, I have developed a simple administrative app that lists members of our mailing list. ON the viewing page, checkboxes are dynamically listed along with the member info. When one checks a box and clicks 'edit', i want the item checked to open into the edit page with it's appropriate data. Problem: I can get the checkbox associated to an id number on the viewing page. I just can't seem to figure out how to send that id and data to the edit page. any help or suggestions would be great. can provide code examples if needed. karinb karinb

as a newbie, I have developed a simple administrative app that lists members of our mailing list. ON the viewing page, checkboxes are dynamically listed along with the member info. When one checks a box and clicks 'edit', i want the item checked to open into the edit page with it's appropriate data. Problem: I can get the checkbox associated to an id number on the viewing page. I just can't seem to figure out how to send that id and data to the edit page. any help or suggestions would be great. can provide code examples if needed. karinb karinb

as a newbie, I have developed a simple administrative app that lists members of our mailing list. ON the viewing page, checkboxes are dynamically listed along with the member info. When one checks a box and clicks 'edit', i want the item checked to open into the edit page with it's appropriate data. Problem: I can get the checkbox associated to an id number on the viewing page. I just can't seem to figure out how to send that id and data to the edit page. any help or suggestions would be great. can provide code examples if needed. karinb -- modified at 11:42 Thursday 4th May, 2006

to answer this, no, i don't get an error at all, just am not able to put any data into the field if it is set for 'text'. the words, Long Text, are in the field instead. Is this just some sort of link to the actual data? how do I see if it is in there? I am actually copying/pasting text from a document and it includes some html tags. would that cause a problem? thank you. karinb

I disabled the 'text in row'. I reset my field to 'text', and the length changed to '16'. Now, in the field when i open the table, this is in the box, and i am unable to enter my data into the field. i am confused, why wouldn't it allow me to declare text and then put all my data in the row? i thought text held over 2bill chars? karinb -- modified at 17:45 Monday 17th April, 2006

please explain how to do that, i do not know where i would look to enable that feature. Thank you. karinb

I need to utilize the text datatype, as i'm storing a very large amount of text data in a table. however, the designer keeps defaulting to a length of '16', and will not go any bigger. Am I doing something wrong? I am at this time attempting to hard code data to the table as I'm archiving a lot of information, then i'll build the .aspx pages to keep it updated with the current data. If this doesn't work, i'll have to create 5 or 6 varchar rows, and i would rather avoid that. this field will be searchable eventually. Thanks for any help you can offer. karinb