Is it possible to use an UpdatePanel that has like a few text boxes, and a search button, and then perhaps another UpdatePanel that has a gridview in it to return the results of what was searched. When the user clicks search it hides the boxes, and displays the gridview. Can I do this with UpdatePanels? I am using c# for my coding. Or should I be doing this another way?
You only need one UpdatePanel in that case and setup a Trigger to your search Button.
Put only the controls that will be refreshed in your UpdatePanel.
Example:
<asp:TextBox ID="txtSearchCriteria" runat="server" />
<asp:Button ID="btnSearch" runat="server" OnClick="btnSearch_Click" />
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="btnSearch" EventName="Click" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:GridView ID="grdSearchResults" runat="server">
</asp:GridView>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
Implement the btnSearch_Click function to execute your search and bind the results to the GridView. The UpdatePanel will handle the ajax call and replacing of the HTML that the GridView will produce.
You want to keep as much out of the UpdatePanel as possible and only include what will actually change because it is transmitting that HTML with each update so it's a waste of resources if you are not actually doing anything to those controls with each action. That is why a trigger is best to be used in this case which will hook the UpdatePanel to the Click event outside of the UpdatePanel scope.
Read up more on UpdatePanel and how triggers work on MSDN.
If I understand the question correctly, you can do that with two <asp:Panel> controls inside the <UpdatePanel>. One panel for the textboxes, and the other for the gridview. You set which panel to show in the codebehind, depending on whether you're expecting your user to enter search criteria, or review the search results.
Yes you can.
You also could use just one update panel. Since you the Search Form (could be in a Panel) and the GridView inside the UpdatePanel.
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I am using 2 Update Panel in Asp.net. Second Update Panel is inside main Update Panel. It is like as below :
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel2" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
// Google Map...
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
UpdatePanel1 contains Dropdown and It is Autupostback=true so if user selects any Dropdown then it refreshs Google Map which is inside. I do not want to refresh inside Update Panel anyway.
Is it possible to do this ?
People often misunderstand the way UpdatePanel works. They mistakenly think that, there's no page reload when anything triggering postback occurs inside an UpdatePanel. This is totally wrong. In fact a full page reload is taken place. It's not a coincidence that UpdatePanel is located under category called AJAX controls of the toolbox. But it does not work the same as AJAX does, it just imitates it. What you get when you use UpdatePanel is that the page does not flicker to the top of the page, which is the normal behavior of any full page reload, so you get a feeling of partial refresh. That's why, the Google Maps you're talking about gets refreshed. Using real AJAX will help you do just what you want. Jquery library has a very convenient way of doing AJAX. Or you can just use plain javascript.
When I click on the attach button, It adds a new row to the grid with the postedFile name.
But its also causing the whole page to refresh, as if the updatePanel doesnt exist. Whereas, I would like just the gridview to update. Why does this have to be this way with file upload controls. The UpdatePanel works as desired for other controls/grids on page.
I do not have a knowledge on jquery, so have to work it out only with c#. Any suggestions.
<asp:updatepanel runat="server" updatemode="conditional">
<triggers>
<asp:postbacktrigger controlid="btnAttach"/>
</triggers>
<contenttemplate>
<asp:gridview ...../>
<asp:fileupload id="fup" runat="server">
<asp:button id="btnAttach" text="attach" runat="server/>
</contenttemplate>
</asp:updatepanel>
i suggest you to use the ajax asyncFileUploader
Link
Link
it will help you without postback and without jquery
it use plain javascript and its easy the following link containing the example also
Fileupload is one of the controls that is not compatible with updatepanel:
Read here
I've been trying to add/remove controls to an updatepanel when updating it. Those controls are dynamically filled depending on the info in the page session.
The Updatepanel_Load event is triggered correctly but the controls I've changed won't show properly. They'll only show after a full postback!
Now I know that you need an onInit event to add / alter controls on the page but is this also necessary for an updatepanel? Can someone please explain the right order to do this?
ORDER RIGHT NOW:
Button click
LoginProcedure over ajax
OnInit
UpdatePanel1_Load (Generates controls)
onInit.
So no controls are added / altered until full post back. What is the correct order / method to add / alter controls within an updatepanel without a full postback?
add async postback to your updatePanel like:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Init..."></asp:Label>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="TextBoxTrigger" EventName="TextChanged" />
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
I'm adding a variable number of update panels in Page_Init.
I already have a script manager in my master page.
The problem is that when I try to add a trigger like:
AsyncPostBackTrigger trig2 = new AsyncPostBackTrigger();
trig2.ControlID = ddl22.UniqueID;
trig2.EventName = "SelectedIndexChanged";
up2.Triggers.Add(trig2);
where ddl22 is a DropDownList, the event never seems to trigger the UpdatePanel.
In the UpdatePanel I have another DropDownList the data of which i want to change when the trigger happens.
The funny thing is that in the master page I have a timer. This timer is only supposed to trigger the UpdatePanel in the master but it seems to trigger all of my update panels. However, even when it triggers the update panel in the child page, the second DropDownList does not change its data.
The data is databound to the DropDownList in the UpdatePanel in page_init. It is bound to an objectdatasource which uses the selected item in the first DropDownList as a parameter to determine what data it should bind.
Did you set AutoPostBack="True" for your drop down list? I suspect this is the issue.
Also set your update panel mode to conditional-UpdateMode="Conditional" so that i does not affect other update panels.
Try this,
In Source Code,
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="up2" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddl1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddl1_SelectedIndexChanged"></asp:DropDownList>
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddl2" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddl2_SelectedIndexChanged"></asp:DropDownList>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:PostBackTrigger ControlID="ddl2" />
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
You can manually call the UpdatePanel to refresh without specifying a trigger on a postBack event. Firstly, set the UpdateMode property to 'Conditional', then you can just call an update on your updatepanel from code behind like
MyUpdatePanel.Update();
You are implementing an ASP.NET AJAX page. You add the following control to the page.
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="pnl1" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate> ... </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
You need update the contents of the UpdatePanel without causing
a full reload of the page. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the
solution. Choose two.)
A. Add the following control before the UpdatePanel. <asp:Timer ID="Timer1" OnLoad="Timer1_Tick"
runat="server" Interval="3000" />
B. Add the following control within the UpdatePanel. <asp:Timer ID="Timer1" OnLoad="Timer1_Tick"
runat="server" Interval="3000" />
C. Add an AsyncPostBackTrigger that references Timer1.
D. Add a PostBackTrigger that references Timer1.
You should place Timer within UpdatePanel to update contetns. So, right answers are B and C.
From MSDN "You use the Timer control to update an UpdatePanel control by including the timer inside the UpdatePanel control. Alternatively, you can place the timer outside the UpdatePanel control and set the timer as a trigger."
Sounds like the answer is A+C or just B.