Adobe 38040334 User Guide - Page 699

DREAMWEAVER CS3 692 User Guide DataGrid Column Type Description Hyperlink The Hyperlink column displays information as hypertext links. A typical use is to display data (such as a customer number or product name) as a hyperlink that users can click to navigate to a separate page that provides details about that item. Edit, Update, Cancel Buttons Referred to as the "edit command" column in ASP.NET, the Edit, Update, Cancel Buttons column lets users perform in-place editing of information in DataGrid rows. To do so, create an Edit, Update, Cancel Buttons column. At run time, this column displays a button labeled Edit. When the user clicks the Edit button, the row data is displayed in editable controls such as text boxes, and the Edit button is replaced with Update and Cancel buttons. Delete Button The Delete Button lets a user delete a particular row by clicking a button. Before using the DataGrid server behavior, you must define a DataSet (referred to as a recordset by other document types) for the DataGrid. To learn more about the DataGrid control, and how it can be used to format dynamic data, see the Microsoft website at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpcondatagridwebservercontrol.asp. See also "About recordsets" on page 543 Add an ASP.NET DataGrid control to a page DataGrid controls let you format and display dynamic data in multi-column grids that are rendered as tables. Note: Before inserting the DataGrid server behavior, you must define a DataSet (referred to as a recordset by other document types) for the DataGrid. 1 Open the Server Behaviors panel (Window > Server Behaviors), click the Plus (+) button, and select DataGrid. 2 Select the ID attribute (or label) of the DataGrid control. This field is pre-populated with a value. You can change the value of the DataGrid; however, if you set the value of the field to that of an existing ID, you must enter a new attribute value. 3 Select a DataSet to associate with the DataGrid. This is the DataSet from which the DataGrid retrieves information. Dreamweaver fills the Grid Columns box with bound columns for all of the fields in the selected DataSet. 4 Specify the number of records to be displayed. 5 Select the type of page navigation links to implement. • The Links To Previous And Next Pages item adds Next and Prev links. • The "Numbered Links To Every Page" item adds page-number links- for example, "1 2 3 4 5 n...". 6 Remove the grid columns you don't want by selecting them in the Grid Columns box, and clicking the Minus (-) button. 7 You can edit the remaining grid columns by selecting a column in the Grid Columns box and setting its properties. September 4, 2007