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Prompt for table data & create a table?

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markdmac

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I am hoping someone can assist me as I really don't know where to start with this. I am looking to create what I hope is a simple ASP.Net page. I need to provide five boxes for input (name, email, address, certification date, referral date) and hopefully have a button to add this to a table that will appear below the input boxes. I need to also have a second button that will display the contents of the table with name & email on one line and then the remaining fields on a second line for each entry in the table. I need the ability to add a custom header & footer to this as well.

The resulting new page will then get printed to a PDF to be included in an email unless there is a way to put this same data directly into an email as a message body. The trick here is I am hoping to make this work for both PC and Mac clients.

I'm a PADI Assistant Instructor and am trying to automate a very manual process they put us through to record certifications so this isn't anything I'm doing for profit etc, I want to make this solution available for free to all my fellow dive pros. While I am a scripting samurai when it comes to VBScript, I really suck at VB.Net. I have my own Windows based server to load any code on.

Can anyone assist with some sample code that could get me started? Once I have the core function down I will use the header/footer info to duplicate the rest of the form that we have to fill out.



I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark

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Does the data entered and displayed in the table on the screen need to be stored in a database of some sort, or would it be disposed of when the email was created? Do you have a database solution already in place and just need help with the interface?



Mark

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Mark, it will just be disposed of. I will eventually try to add functionality to store some bits of info in a cookie, but I can figure that bunch out later.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Mark

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Don't want my previous reply to confuse you. I would later want to store the user's name and dive pro number in a cookie so they don't have to enter that each time. The info I am looking to add to the table would always be disposed of. The cookie would be great but I will deal with that later.
 
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I'm not quite sure on what your final product will be, but thought I could at least give you something to start with. It's a very simple example to get input, store that info in a datatable and show in a gridview. Assuming you have a project started and created a page, you should be able to copy the following into it (providing it's in VB). It does no real validation other than a date check.

The .aspx markup (copy into the <body>)

Code: 
<form id="frmMain" runat="server">
    <div>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    Name
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtName" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
                <td>
                    Address
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtAddress" Width="250px"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    Email
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtEmail" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
                <td>
                    Certification Date
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtCertificationDate" Width="75px"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    Referral Date
                </td>
                <td>
                    <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtReferral" Width="75px"></asp:TextBox>
                </td>
                <td colspan="2">
                    &nbsp
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="4" align="center">
                    <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnSave" Text="Save" Width="150px" />
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        <br />
        <br />
        <asp:GridView runat='server' ID="gvNames" DataKeyNames="id" CellPadding="4" ShowFooter="True"
            ShowHeader="true" AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="White" BorderColor="#3366CC"
            BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="1px">
            <Columns>
                <asp:BoundField DataField="ID" HeaderText="ID" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Name" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="email" HeaderText="Email" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="Address" HeaderText="Address" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="CertificationDate" HeaderText="CertificationDate" DataFormatString="{0: MM/dd/yyyy}" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="ReferralDate" HeaderText="ReferralDate" DataFormatString="{0: MM/dd/yyyy}" />
            </Columns>
            <FooterStyle BackColor="#99CCCC" ForeColor="#003399" />
            <HeaderStyle BackColor="#003399" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#CCCCFF" />
            <RowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#003399" />
        </asp:GridView>
    </div>
    </form>

and this into the to code behind for that page:

Code: 
Public Property AllMyNames() As DataTable
        Get
            Return ViewState("NamesDataTable")
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As DataTable)
            ViewState("NamesDataTable") = value
        End Set
    End Property

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        If Not IsPostBack Then
            ' define the datatable
            Dim dtNames As New DataTable
            dtNames.Columns.Add("ID", GetType(Integer))
            dtNames.Columns.Add("Name", GetType(String))
            dtNames.Columns.Add("Email", GetType(String))
            dtNames.Columns.Add("Address", GetType(String))
            dtNames.Columns.Add("CertificationDate", GetType(Date))
            dtNames.Columns.Add("ReferralDate", GetType(Date))
            ' set in viewstate
            AllMyNames = dtNames
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnSave_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
        Dim dt As DataTable = AllMyNames
        Dim dr As DataRow = dt.Rows.Add
        dr("ID") = dt.Rows.Count
        dr("Name") = txtName.Text
        dr("Address") = txtAddress.Text
        dr("Email") = txtEmail.Text
        If IsDate(txtCertificationDate.Text) Then
            dr("CertificationDate") = CDate(txtCertificationDate.Text)
        End If
        If IsDate(txtReferral.Text) Then
            dr("ReferralDate") = CDate(txtReferral.Text)
        End If
        dt.AcceptChanges()
        AllMyNames = dt
        ' show the new name in the datagrid
        gvNames.DataSource = AllMyNames
        gvNames.DataBind()
    End Sub


Mark

"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
 
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