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Quick question:
A department I am working for has asked that I come some functionality on their web site for their users. The site holds student data broken down by schools. The users with schools that have a large number of students want to be able to go from the page that lists all of their students to the student's information page and then back to the list starting where they left off. The list of students is presented in a gridview control, so I was wondering if there was a way I could save where the user was in the gridview so that when they finish looking at a student's information they can start back on the gridview from where they started from.
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Yes there are numerous ways to get at your goal.
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Your link requires a registered user.
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Oops. When I first clicked on it from google it worked without registration. Either use the cached version or look for one of the other of hundreds of articles about using the MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback directive.
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Cookie
I've never used them, but I believe you could create a cookie with "key" information like the student ID so that when you come back to the Grid page, you could load it at the right location.
Session variable
Same idea as a cookie, but the implementation is a bit different
Pop-Up
You could make the Student Detail window appear as a new browser window, so they can see the student info in one window and the grid remains untouched in another window.
Just some ideas ...
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Yeah, I tried the pop up idea, but the more I think about it I get fears of calls in the middle of the night about users not being able to use the site because they have turned off their pop up blocker. I'm using Session variables already, so that and cookies aren't a stretch for me.
Thanks for the advice.
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It's easy enough, assuming you're creating links for each student in the RowDataBound event based on their ID number. Then simply add (Attributes.Add) a "name" property to each link also based on their ID, and append this anchor name to the "Back" link url on their student info page (....aspx#s123, for example)
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This seems to be the easiest to add in my current situation, and an obvious no-brainer. If I had thought of this before spending days messing with javascript and jQuery pop ups then I would be closer to being finished. Thanks for the advice!
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Hey I used iTextSharp to get the output data in pdf form. But How do I insert header, footer and page number in each page of that pdf file ?
suchita
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is there any more sample examples for this one ?
suchita
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Ever heard of a tool called Google?
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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Yes. Aleady found so many articles related to that but none fits in mine...
suchita
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Some examples are using HeaderFooter tool which in mine is not showing like for example
HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("This is page: "), true);
But I am not getting HeaderFooter method in mine. I am using iTextSharp version 5.0.4.
suchita
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Isn't iText and iTextSharp is different? I am using iTextSharp and trying to get it done using this. Is it possible ?
suchita
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iTextSharp is a port, there should be very little difference between the Java version and the C# version. I used the book the last time I did a project using iTextSharp and didn't run into any issues.
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iTextSharp is working I guess. Well I can see my data in pdf format already. Just need to add header and footer in that. I am using iTextSharp in my project which is in asp.net using C#. Also I included iText.dll in my project but it doesn't seem like its working.
suchita
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I am not saying to use the iText dll, I am saying to use the book to figure out what method calls and properties to use to accomplish your task.
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Yes. They are using HeaderFooter method in iText which in iTextSharp doesn't have. So is there any way to get header and footer plus page number without using HeaderFooter method ? Or If we are using HeaderFooter, which version of iTextSharp should we have to use ? The one I am using is version 5.0.4 and yet this one doesn't seem to have HeaderFooter method defined. It is giving error in mine saying assembly should be referenced..
suchita
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I also had tried Document.AddHeader thing. that one is also not working in mine.
suchita
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hi,
i need to restrict given characters in Text Box , how can i restrict text-box (client side validation).
Please suggest me better way.
Thanks & Regards,
Vishnu.
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vishnukamath wrote: how can i restrict text-box (client side validation).
Given characters means ? number of char ? Are you looking for MAxLength ?
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hi,
Not no of Characters and no maxlength ,characters mean (cc345,@sdrf)like the way.I need to restrict only these characters.
Thanks and Regards,
Vishnu.
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