I have a GridView that shows a list of restaurants and it's data from my database. In the last column I have a ButtonField
. When the user clicks on the button, then the RowCommand
fires and another GridView appears with the selected restaurant's reviews.
The issue I am having is that while the RowCommand event is fired, the second GridView gvReviews
does not show up at all.
- I have tried to set the GridView's
visible
to true but that does not seem to work. - I have tried to use a
TemplateField
with aButton
instead but that doesn't work either. - I have tried using
if (!IsPostback)
statement
Here's a snippet of my GridViews:
<asp:GridView ID="gvRestaurants" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnRowCommand="gvRestaurants_RowCommand">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestaurantID" HeaderText="ID" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestName" HeaderText="Restaurant" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestAddr" HeaderText="Address" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestCity" HeaderText="City" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestState" HeaderText="State" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestZip" HeaderText="Zip Code" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="CategoryDesc" HeaderText="Category" />
<asp:ButtonField HeaderText="Reviews" CommandName="viewReviews" Text="View" ButtonType="Button" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
<asp:GridView ID="gvReviews" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestaurantID" HeaderText="ID" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RestName" HeaderText="Restaurant" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="ReviewDate" HeaderText="Date of Review" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="FoodQuality" HeaderText="Food Quality" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="ServiceRating" HeaderText="Service" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="AtmosphereRating" HeaderText="Atmosphere" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="PriceRating" HeaderText="Price" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="ReviewText" HeaderText="Review" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
Here's a snippet of the aspx.cs
protected void btnSearch_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
gvRestaurants.Visible = true;
gvAllRestaurants.Visible = false;
DataSet ds = p.SearchByCategory(ddCategories.SelectedItem.Value, ddCategories2.SelectedItem.Value);
gvRestaurants.DataSource = ds;
gvRestaurants.DataBind();
}
protected void gvRestaurants_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
if (e.CommandName == "viewReviews")
{
int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
GridViewRow row = gvRestaurants.Rows[index];
int restID = int.Parse(row.Cells[0].Text);
gvReviews.DataSource = p.GetReview(restID);
gvReviews.DataBind();
gvRestaurants.Visible = false;
gvReviews.Visible = true;
}
else
{
string error = "There are no reviews for this restaurant.";
ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "myalert", "alert('" + error + "');", true);
}
Here's a snippet of the methods i used:
public DataSet SearchByCategory(string category1, string category2)
{
DBConnect objDB = new DBConnect();
objCmd.Parameters.Clear();
objCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
objCmd.CommandText = "GetRestaurantByCategory";
SqlParameter sqlParameter = new SqlParameter("@theCategory", category1);
SqlParameter sqlParameter2 = new SqlParameter("@theCategory2", category2);
sqlParameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;
sqlParameter.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.VarChar;
sqlParameter.Size = 50;
sqlParameter2.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;
sqlParameter2.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.VarChar;
sqlParameter2.Size = 50;
objCmd.Parameters.Add(sqlParameter);
objCmd.Parameters.Add(sqlParameter2);
objDB.GetConnection().Open();
DataSet ds = objDB.GetDataSetUsingCmdObj(objCmd);
objDB.CloseConnection();
return ds;
}
public DataSet GetReview(int restaurant)
{
DBConnect objDB = new DBConnect();
objCmd.Parameters.Clear();
objCmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
objCmd.CommandText = "GetReviewByRestaurantID";
SqlParameter sqlParameter = new SqlParameter("@theRestaurantID", restaurant);
sqlParameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;
sqlParameter.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.Int;
sqlParameter.Size = 4;
objCmd.Parameters.Add(sqlParameter);
objDB.GetConnection().Open();
DataSet ds = objDB.GetDataSetUsingCmdObj(objCmd);
objDB.CloseConnection();
return ds;
}
Here are my stored procedures used:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].GetRestaurantByCategory
@theCategory varchar(50),
@theCategory2 varchar(50)
AS
SELECT rest.RestaurantID, rest.RestName, rest.RestAddr, rest.RestCity, rest.RestState, rest.RestZip, cat.CategoryDesc
FROM Restaurants rest JOIN Categories cat ON rest.CategoryID = cat.CategoryID
WHERE CategoryDesc = @theCategory OR CategoryDesc = @theCategory2
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].GetReviewByRestaurantID
@theRestaurantID int
AS
SELECT rest.RestaurantID, rest.RestName, rev.ReviewDate, rev.FoodQuality, rev.ServiceRating, rev.AtmosphereRating, rev.PriceRating, rev.ReviewText
FROM Restaurants rest JOIN Reviews rev ON rest.RestaurantID = rev.RestaurantID
WHERE Rest.RestaurantID = @theRestaurantID