Parent DataList!

[Adam Knight]

Hi all,

I have two Datalists.
One is nested within the HTML of another.

What i need to do is determine the current item index of the parent datalist
in the OnItemBound of the child.

Public Sub dlDocumentTypes_ItemBound(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As
DataListItemEventArgs)

Dim cmdSelectDocuments As SqlCommand
Dim dlDocumentLinks As DataList

'determine if current item is not a header of footer
If (E.Item.ItemType <> ListItemType.Header Or E.Item.ItemType <>
ListItemType.Footer) Then

'retrieve child DataList control from item
dlDocumentLinks = CType(E.Item.FindControl("dlDocumentLinks"),
DataList)

'get documents
cmdSelectDocuments = New SqlCommand("get_documents", Cn)
cmdSelectDocuments.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
cmdSelectDocuments.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@standard",
ParentList.DataKeys(ParentList.ItemIndex))) ???

'bind data list to data source
dlDocumentLinks.DataSource = Ds.Tables("DocumentTypes")
dlDocumentLinks.DataBind()

End If

End Sub

Can anyone enlighten me???

Cheers,
Adam

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Adam is this what you are looking for ?:-
CStr(ParentList.DataKeys(ParentList.SelectedIndex) ).Replace("'", "''")
Hope that helps
Patrick

"Adam Knight" <ad**@pertrain.com.au> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have two Datalists.
One is nested within the HTML of another.

What i need to do is determine the current item index of the parent datalist in the OnItemBound of the child.

Public Sub dlDocumentTypes_ItemBound(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As
DataListItemEventArgs)

Dim cmdSelectDocuments As SqlCommand
Dim dlDocumentLinks As DataList

'determine if current item is not a header of footer
If (E.Item.ItemType <> ListItemType.Header Or E.Item.ItemType <>
ListItemType.Footer) Then

'retrieve child DataList control from item
dlDocumentLinks = CType(E.Item.FindControl("dlDocumentLinks"),
DataList)

'get documents
cmdSelectDocuments = New SqlCommand("get_documents", Cn)
cmdSelectDocuments.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
cmdSelectDocuments.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@standard",
ParentList.DataKeys(ParentList.ItemIndex))) ???

'bind data list to data source
dlDocumentLinks.DataSource = Ds.Tables("DocumentTypes")
dlDocumentLinks.DataBind()

End If

End Sub

Can anyone enlighten me???

Cheers,
Adam