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asp.net.netvb.netrepeater
Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 2295

Render mark up in one asp repeater item

Ok just thinking of how to put the question right.

I have a datatable which returns some feedback details. The datatable contains feedbacks of two companies. The feedbacks of the datatable distinguished based on an indicator in the each data row.

The repeater is sorted on date order (newest first). If the companies are A and B, company A's feedback will be always listed in the top, since they are the newest. I have rendered an image and some wording to mention if the listed feedback is company B feedback.

Public Function RenderTitle(ByVal objItem As Object) As String
        Select Case objItem
            Case 1
                Return String.Empty
            Case 0
                Return "Feedback below obtained whilst a member of our sister company  " & "<img src=""../img/logo.png"" />"
            Case Else
                Return String.Empty
        End Select
    End Function

The title is rendered if the feedback belongs to company B.

Problem: I dont want the title to be rendered in all the items of the company B. I want it to render just in the first item (feedback) that belongs to Company B. How can I achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 323

Answers (2)

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 1669

Formatting the contents of a DataList or Repeater control based upon the data can be accomplished by using two techniques.

The first technique is to create an event handler for the ItemDataBound event, which fires as each record in the data source is bound to a new DataListItem or RepeaterItem. In the ItemDataBound event handler, the current item's data can be examined, and then formatting can be applied to the contents of the template or, for DataListItems, to the entire item itself.

Alternatively, custom formatting can be realized through formatting functions. A formatting function is a method that can be invoked from the DataList or Repeater's templates that returns the HTML to emit in its place. Often, the HTML returned by a formatting function is determined by the values being bound to the current item. These values can be passed into the formatting function, either as scalar values or by passing-in the entire object being bound to the item (such as the ProductsRow instance).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510136.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Nalaka526
Nalaka526

Reputation: 11464

Can you try something like this... (Ugly Code & Not Tested)

HTML 

...
<asp:HiddenField ID="hdnIsTitleRenderd" runat="server"/>
...

CODE

Page_Load()
    If Not IsPostBack
         hdnIsTitleRenderd.Value = "False"
    End If
End  Sub 

Public Function RenderTitle(ByVal objItem As Object) As String
       Select Case objItem
            Case 1
                Return String.Empty
            Case 0
                If Convert.ToBoolean(hdnIsTitleRenderd.Value) = False
                       hdnIsTitleRenderd.Value = "True"
                       Return "Feedback below obtained whilst a member of our sister company  " & "<img src=""../img/logo.png"" />"
                Else
                    Return String.Empty
                End If
            Case Else
                    Return String.Empty
        End Select
End Function

Upvotes: 1

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