Binding DetailsView from Gridview selection other than selectedvalue.

[dstrange]

Is this possible?
I'd like to have my DetailsView based off of the selection of the Gridview from the value in the 3rd column. I'm used to doing this based off of the gridview.selectedvalue but I am not sure how to do it based of off another gridview column. Thanks in advance.

 

[jmeckley]

a gridview can have multiple datakeys, make the value of column 3 a datakey value as well. when you load your dataview select the record using the additional datakey. then it doesn't matter what column the value is, or if it's even displayed.

something like this

<gridview datakeys="id,additional_column">

void handler_for_select_gridview_row(object sender, SelectedGridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
   var key = mygride.datakeys[e.SelectedIndex]["additional_column"];
   mydataview.DataSource = get_record_based_on(key);
   mydataview.DataBind();
}

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.