Jon Galloway

This is because on a postback the linkbutton that is inside your repeater doesn't exist unless you rebind the repeater. If viewstate is off the server can't fire the linkbutton.click event because the linkbutton doesn't exist in the control tree.

You can safely set enableviewstate to false on the repeater if you make sure to rebind the reapeater on each request weather there is a postback or not.

Hope this helps,
Clint

Seems like it depends on both EnableViewState (EVS) and Postback/rebind

This is my scenario ..

1. EVS=True, Rebind on postback: DID NOT WORK
2. EVS=True, No rebind: WORKED
3. EVS=False, Rebind: WORKED
4. EVS=False, No Rebind: DID NOT WORK, obviously

Anyways, helped me to get it working ! Thanx

I have the same problem suing a datagrid

I just included my bind within the
if (!IsPostBack) statement and that fixed it.

I have used linkbutton inside repeater control but when i click on the linkbutton repeater's item command is not firing.

please provide solution.

Thanks Jon Galloway .

I have almost Spend whole day on this technical issue.but at last i found idea from this article and my problem was solved.

I had the same problem, but playing with the viewstate property didn't help the problem. Until I realised the content placeholder's viewstate was disabled and so it didn't matter how I changed my viewstate of the repeater. After viewstate enabled of the placeholder it worked perfectly.

i am trying to add button controls at run time to a placeholder in datalist's footer template, but ItemCommand is not firing for these button controls. need help

I have some buttons within a .ascx control and a repeater on the page. If i don't bind on load (no matter if it is on postback or not), then the linkbuttons on the repeater do not fire the repeater's itemcommand. if i do bind the repeater on load every time then the buttons that are not in the repeater don't fire. i have tried viewstate combinations with the binding, but it comes down to the fact that what works for the repeater breaks the buttons outside the repeater and vice versa.

pseudo code looks like this:

on load()

   BindRepeater()

end

linkbutton_onclick()

   dynamically create a criterion for the   repeater's dataset

   BindRepeater()

End

Repeater_itemcommand()

   set some session variables

   BindRepeater()

end

BindRepeater()

bind repeater to a dynamic sql statement

end

Yup it appears that in version 2.0 this started happening.   I followed the previous recommendation and I set the repeater viewstate to false and that did the trick.

Guess you can also follow the other suggested alternative and do rebinding on the page_load.

Just grateful for the feedback, I struggled 10 hours until I came across this site.  

Thank you

The viewstate solution didn't work for me, so I added in an event and delegate to the template and tried to use that to bubble up the click event, but it didn't work. It seems that the ItemCommand isn't firing because the linkbutton event isn't firing. For some reason the linkbutton becomes an ordinary html button and just posts back - no event.

That's as far as I can be bothered to take it, I'm moving back to GET since POST isn't working. It'll save me hours of mucking around. With every release there's something wrong with the f***in' repeater - MS sort it out!

Well I had a similar problem with datalist control, while adding buttons to footer control dynamically. But in my case when I made the EVS=true for datalist control, it worked.

Is this a bug or its the way to do it??????????????

Thank you.

I had the same problem but I had turned off viewstate for the contentPlaceholders on my master page.

I am having this problem with a dnn module. I have a link button embeded into the repeater with the following code.

ID="lnkRecID" runat="server" CommandName="Update" CommandArgument='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Item") %>'>Update

with the asp tags respectively at the beginning and end. No matter how I change the viewstate the link button will not initiate a postback.

Any suggestions?

James I have been pulling my hair out with the same situation, where the viewstate issue does not apply.

In your datalist control, try setting CausesValidation="false".  It worked for me.

On a hunch, I remember having scripting issues where validation controls were on a page, but a control without any custom validation would not work. By setting CausesValidation="false" the control would work.

Well, there is no validation on this page, but I tried it, and that seems to have worked.

I'm sorry. Place CausesValidation="false" in the markup of your linkbutton.

I am trying to get the values out of dropdowns that I added dynamically within a gridview control.  I have figured out how to make the selected values survive postbacks, but I haven't figured out how to get a reference to the dynamically added controls to read the values out of them. Any suggestions?

If you bind in your Page_PreRender() event to react to user inputs like I do, then disabling viewstate on your repeater *will* cause your linkbuttons inside the repeater to no fire their clicked event (because they haven't been created yet).  So, the simplest solution I found was to just bind to an empty ArrayList in the Page_Load() event, and not touch any other code.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

   {

       //If we don't rebind the repeater here, and viewstate is false, clicking linkbuttons won't raise events.

       Repeater1.DataSource = new ArrayList();

       Repeater1.DataBind();

   }

Works great and still seems relatively lightweight..  Feel free to expand on this..

Saved the day!   I had been googling "Repeater Header ItemCommand" and "Repeater Header Event Handlers" and this page was 3 or 4 pages deep in the results.  

Hopefully this comment will help to bump it up a little.

For controls added at run time (dynamically) in repeater(or any where else) setting id property helps proper handling of Item command event. (make sure that dynamically added controls are loaded evry time before viewstate is set.

John,

Thanks!

Setting CausesValidation="false" on the LinkButton fixed the issue I was having with my LinkButton event not firing inside a repeater. Works great now!

Mike

I have the same issue with "DataGrid" control. Though I bind it in the page_load, still the problem persists. When i select the button, the grid vanishes.

Thanx a million ....

Both ...

Setting EVS=False

     &

Setting EVS=True and including [b]if(!ispostback)[/b] on page_load event of my webform worked....

Thanx once again...

Regards,

Rajan Arora....

For me, the EVS doesn't matter. It works ONLY when I rebind all the time

Anyone knows why

You saved my day... Thanks

how i use repeters items id  on page.

Yeah, just putting the causeValidation to false in the linkbutton fix it for me. Tnx!

Saved my life too :) EVS off, rebind on

Stupid me, setting CausesValidation="false" made my day after 4 hours struggling... Thanks guys for sharing this tip

I had the same problem, But i had a textbox which was mandatory and invisible. I changed the CausesValidation=False for the Button and it worked. Stupid Me:-)