Difficult problem with the UpdatePanel and State

Hi,

I have a page with an UpdatePanel that display 5 news story headlines, within the UpdatePanel there are two buttons, back and next, to move the to the next 5 headlines set or to move previous 5 headlines set. Each headline has a link that goes to a new page where the full news story is shown. All this is working great, but if the user is on the second or third set of headlines, then clicks on one of the headlines to go to the page that shows the entire news story, then the user click the back button on the browser to get back to the news story headlines, the news story headlines page will display the first set of news story headlines, not the second or third set where the user originally left from.

How I can let the news story headlines page or the UpdatePanel know on which set the user left the page, so when the user came back via the back browser button, the set they left is displayed?

Hope this makes sense! Thank you.

Please, let me know if I should explain this better or differently, need help with it!

DetailsView & ObjectDataSource: Cancel Insert but Retain User Input

Hi,

I need to cancel an insert operation during a DetailsView/ObjectDataSource insert event, and display to the user the same insert page with their previously entered values. For example, after a server side input validation the user may need to modify some of the values they entered.

Canceling insert is easy in the ObjectDataSource.Inserting event handler: e.Cancel = true;

However, this cancels insert mode and the values the user input are lost. The ObjectDataSource.Inserting event handler has access to the input parameters, which contain the values the user has entered. It is possible to put the DetailsView object back into insert mode: DetailsView1.DefaultMode = DetailsViewMode.Insert; but I don't know how to programatically assign the user values to the fields, since I do not know how to get a handle to the field.

How does one retain the user input values in insert mode when canceling an inserting event in the DetailsView/ObjectDataSource programming model?

Thanks,

Paul

You should validate the input values in the DetailsView ItemInserting event, rather than in the ObjectDataSource Inserting event. In such case the input values will be retained though you cancel the inserting event

protected void DetailsView1_ItemInserting (object sender, DetailsViewInsertEventArgs e)
{
// validate
e.Cancel = true;
}

Thanks

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