Regards,

Erik

I’m afraid I do not quite understand what it is your customer wants you to do. When you say ” the dropdown box as it is used in the document name” do you mean the context menu? If you are looking to build that, Part 3 of my series might be a good place to start. Then you could call the required checkin/checkout commands in response to the menu commands.

Am I getting close to what it is you are asking? If not, feel free to drop me a line and I will try to help you out more before your deadline. But I think you are correct, two days seems very tight for custom development work.

Erik

I have a situation where the customer wants me to re-create the checkin/checkout functionality on a doc lib and using a gridview.

this is to be a POC, and I’ve never done anything like it. do you have any suggestions where start. I have not idea how create or re-create the dropdown box as it is used in the document name in a doc lib.

any suggestions will be creatly appreciated….

Thanks for your feedback. If the SelectData method takes more time it is definitely a good idea to structure the code as you did. Well done!

Erik

Thanks for your usefull post! One note:
I found out that if I had grid.DataBind(); – method called inside the Render method the SelectData is called twice. When I moved grid.DataBind(); -call to OnPreRender method, I got rid of the second SelectData -call.
If SelectData method takes some time (call to other datasource), it decreases performance to call it twice (in vain). (Only difference from your code is that I call GenerateColumns from CreateChildControls instead of Render)

Br,
Juha

Glad it helped you out! I haven’t been able to edit the filter list in the way you propose but it’s a very interesting idea. I’ll be sure to look into it and if I come up with anything I will let you know

Cheers,
Erik