C# Wholesale Order form - textboxes in Gridviews in Repeater
- by tnriverfish
I'm building a wholesale order form on a website.
The current plan is to...
-get an ArrayList of DepartmentUnits
-a DepartmentUnit has various attributes like "deptId", "description" and its own ArrayList of StoreItems
-The StoreItems have attached ArrayList of various SizeOptions
-The SizeOptions have an inventory count integer along with their description
-Planning on putting an asp:Repeater on the page that has an asp:GridView in it
-Each DepartmentUnit will have its own GridView
-EachStore item will have a row in the GridView
-Each SizeOption will have a TextBox in the row (approximately 10 options)
-Each inventory count will be watermarked over the size option textbox
The question becomes how will I then collect all this information correctly once the form has been filled out? I don't like the idea of putting all this information in an update panel and then posting back each time a GridView row or worse one of the row's textboxes changes.
Any advice on putting a single save button on the page and looping through each Repeater item - and each GridViewRow - and each textbox - to get all the values entered?
Better to try collecting all the items added in a single table at the bottom of the page and updating the string with jquery each time a text box is modified?
Then just looping through the new table when saved? Not sure I know how to loop through that table though - updating if quantity is changed might be a bear too.
If it considerably simplifies the process I could just remove the Repeater aspect and put separate GridViews on separate pages.
Thanks!
