Gridview ButtonFields - disabling based on same row data contion?

[jobs]

Say I have Gridview with some Buttonfields I want to enable or disable
based on the values of other bound data? Here I want I only want to
enable button Rate only if field lastAction = "Export Completed"

If this can't be done at the time I first bind, and I must use
Findcontrol and by value, How can I do that?
<asp:GridView ID="PendingGrid View" runat="server"
DataSourceID="P endingSqlDataSo urce"
AutoGenerateCol umns="False" DataKeyNames="P rocessId,DayTag "
SkinID="GridVie w" Width="600px">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Proc essid" visible=false />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="DayT ag" HeaderText="Day Tag"
ReadOnly="True" SortExpression= "DayTag" />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Carr ierCode"
HeaderText="Car rier Code" SortExpression= "CarrierCod e" />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Last Action" HeaderText="Las t
Action" SortExpression= "LastAction " />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Tota lRecords"
HeaderText="Tot al Records" SortExpression= "TotalRecor ds" />
<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Rate"
HeaderText="Rat e" CommandName="Ra te" >
</asp:ButtonField >
<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Export"
HeaderText="Exp ort" CommandName="Ex port">
</asp:ButtonField >
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>

[Shahzad Godil]

You can use something like

<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Rate" HeaderText="Rat e"
CommandName="Ra te" Enabled=<%# IIF(Container.D ataItem("lastAc tion ") =
"Export Completed", "true","fal se" %>

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Shahzad Godil
Karachi-Pakistan.

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Say I have Gridview with some Buttonfields I want to enable or disable
based on the values of other bound data? Here I want I only want to
enable button Rate only if field lastAction = "Export Completed"

If this can't be done at the time I first bind, and I must use
Findcontrol and by value, How can I do that?
<asp:GridView ID="PendingGrid View" runat="server"
DataSourceID="P endingSqlDataSo urce"
AutoGenerateCol umns="False" DataKeyNames="P rocessId,DayTag "
SkinID="GridVie w" Width="600px">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Proc essid" visible=false />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="DayT ag" HeaderText="Day Tag"
ReadOnly="True" SortExpression= "DayTag" />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Carr ierCode"
HeaderText="Car rier Code" SortExpression= "CarrierCod e" />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Last Action" HeaderText="Las t
Action" SortExpression= "LastAction " />
<asp:BoundFie ld DataField="Tota lRecords"
HeaderText="Tot al Records" SortExpression= "TotalRecor ds" />
<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Rate"
HeaderText="Rat e" CommandName="Ra te" >
</asp:ButtonField >
<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Export"
HeaderText="Exp ort" CommandName="Ex port">
</asp:ButtonField >
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>

[jobs]

Shahzad Godil wrote:

You can use something like

<asp:ButtonFiel d ButtonType="But ton" Text="Rate" HeaderText="Rat e"
CommandName="Ra te" Enabled=<%# IIF(Container.D ataItem("lastAc tion ") =
"Export Completed", "true","fal se" %>

That really looked promising and powerful. However getting Getting
error:

ButtonField does not have a Databinding Event.

[jobs]

I was able to get this to work:

<asp:TemplateFi eld HeaderText="Tes t">
<ItemTemplate >
<asp:Button ID="Rate2" Text="Rate2" CommandName="Ra te2"
Enabled='<%# IIF(Container.D ataItem("LastAc tion").TRIM = "PENDING
APPROVAL...","T RUE","FALSE") %>' runat="server" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateFie ld>

Howevever, when I call the button, I'm unable to identify the row I'm
working with as follows now:

If e.CommandName = "Rate2" Then
Dim index As Integer = Convert.ToInt32 (e.CommandArgum ent)
Dim row As GridViewRow = PendingGridView .Rows(index)
Response.Write( row.Cells(3).Te xt)
End If

Giving me an error about the

Input string was not a correct format.

The above row logic worked fine when using FieldButton. Will I have no
choice but to use Findcontrol now?

Thanks!