VB asp.net hide a container.DataItem in a Repeater control

[Boney]

Hi I have a repeater control which has a series of dataBinder items. There are two that show a start date and an end date of an event. Can someone tell me if it is possible to hide the end date if it is empty or contains the same date as the startdate.

Hope this makes senses.

Thank you

[DrBunchman]

Hi Boney,

You can call a function inside the repeater item template, passing the start date & end date and returning the HTML to display based on their values. Like this:

aspx:

<ItemTemplate> 
    <%#CheckDate(Container.DataItem("StartDate"), Container.DataItem("EndDate"))%>
</ItemTemplate>
 

aspx.vb:

 
Function CheckDate(ByVal sStartDate As String, ByVal sEndDate As String) As String
If sEndDate  = sStartDate Or sEndDate = "" Then 
     Return "<td>&nbsp;</td>"
Else
     Return "<td>" & sEndDate & "</td>"
End Function
 

Does this answer your question? Let me know if it helps,

Dr B

[Boney]

Hi Boney,

You can call a function inside the repeater item template, passing the start date & end date and returning the HTML to display based on their values. Like this:

aspx:

<ItemTemplate> 
    <%#CheckDate(Container.DataItem("StartDate"), Container.DataItem("EndDate"))%>
</ItemTemplate>
 

aspx.vb:

 
Function CheckDate(ByVal sStartDate As String, ByVal sEndDate As String) As String
If sEndDate  = sStartDate Or sEndDate = "" Then 
     Return "<td>&nbsp;</td>"
Else
     Return "<td>" & sEndDate & "</td>"
End Function
 

Does this answer your question? Let me know if it helps,

Dr B

Thank you so much Dr B. it works great.