Contents tagged with ReorderList
-
ReorderList with ObjectDataSource
If you ask me, the AJAX Control Toolkit's ReorderList is the most under appreciated control in the Toolkit. Compared to many of the other controls, it gets no love. The Toolkit demo site's sample for this control isn't really all that helpful and third party samples are sparse. And how do you bind it with an ObjectDataSource control? Read on to find out...
The ReorderList had a 'real word' use for me. There was a situation where I inherited a web form with a priority ranked list that was composed of a list of items that each had a textbox control to the left of them. The textbox contained the priority order for the item in the list. If the user wanted to change the order, he or she would change the numbers in the textboxes and then press a Save button which updated the priority order for the list. Obviously, the users were having a difficult time making this work.
In comes the ReorderList, the magical key to this situation. But how does this work; the Toolkit sample site didn't go far enough. I wanted to bind this with an ObjectDataSource control and it just wasn't working. Well I eventually figured it out and the first thing I thought of was I needed to write an article about this. Of course this was over 6 months ago but now that I have this blog I thought that someone may benefit from my pain.