simple detailview question

[JohnE]

I have a gridview that has a linkbutton on it. What I would like to do is
have this linkbutton bring up a detailview of the corresponding record. But,
can the detail view be displayed in a modal popup style method? Making the
user's do something with the detail view or close out of it. I've seem too
many users open page and leave it open. Want to avoid it. Any known good
links with info to review is good.
.... John

 

[Gregory A. Beamer]

I have a gridview that has a linkbutton on it. What I would like to do is
have this linkbutton bring up a detailview of the corresponding record.
But,
can the detail view be displayed in a modal popup style method? Making
the
user's do something with the detail view or close out of it. I've seem
too
many users open page and leave it open. Want to avoid it. Any known good
links with info to review is good.
... John

Can you open things modally? Yes. Is it easy? It is with AJAX modal
dialogues, which is likely where you want to go. Both the ASP.NET AJAX bits
and some Jquery extensions provide this functionality.

Should it be another window? Probably not. Better to bring up the details in
a div and either have it hiding or partially hiding the list. This means the
user cannot do anything until they either change and save or cancel the
modal dialogue. This will not work for all applications, but it is a good
pattern to try, if applicable.

The asp.net site contains modal examples and setting divs to hide or be
higher in z-order, etc., is fairly straightforward.

--
Peace and Grace,
Greg

Twitter: @gbworld
Blog: http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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[JohnE]

Can you open things modally? Yes. Is it easy? It is with AJAX modal
dialogues, which is likely where you want to go. Both the ASP.NET AJAX bits
and some Jquery extensions provide this functionality.

Should it be another window? Probably not. Better to bring up the details in
a div and either have it hiding or partially hiding the list. This means the
user cannot do anything until they either change and save or cancel the
modal dialogue. This will not work for all applications, but it is a good
pattern to try, if applicable.

The asp.net site contains modal examples and setting divs to hide or be
higher in z-order, etc., is fairly straightforward.

--
Peace and Grace,
Greg

Twitter: @gbworld
Blog: http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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| Think outside the box! |
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Mr Beamer, thank you for the info. Modally is the way I am wanting to go
rather then another window. This is the detail info for the few fields in
one record in the gridview. I would prefer to not have them "think outside
the box" this time. They do something inside the box before they can
continue on.
Thanks again...John