I have looked at a number of solutions to my basic issue, but have not found any solution that I either understand or that would work.
I have a page that takes in two items of information, filename and a store. The user then clicks on a button to execute a function that will update a database and send back a resulting string that I want to display on a textbox on the main form.
However, when they press the button I call a modalpopupextender using an UpdatePanel panel. That gets a value into the modalpopup. If the user validates that the correct store is selected they click an 'okay' button which then call the dbprocessing function that returns a result. The page is small so I'll give the complete aspx and c# code.
The function doProcess() returns a List of values which I convert to String for display. I left the session variables in for that was my last attempt at trying to get this to work.
Where I am confused is that when the first button on the main form (Process) is clicked, there is a postback which obviously hits the page load before the button click. That is when I display the popup. Then when the user clicks on the button Okay, another postback is perform hitting page load before the button click and in that second button I originally tried to set the textbox on the main page because there is no other action after the second click, but no data displayed.
What is strange, if I repeat the process, when I click to display the popup, my data displays. This is not making sense.
This is the aspx page
<%@ Page Title="Product Rank Loader" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/OMnested.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ProductRankLoader.aspx.cs" Inherits="OrderManager.ProductRankLoader" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" TagPrefix="ajax" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/local.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function callme(thisone)
{
$("#ddlStores").prop('disabled', false);
}
</script>
<div>
<table style="width: 500px">
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="lblMessage" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:FileUpload ID="fulRanks" runat="server" Width="315px" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddlStores" runat="server" Height="16px" Width="155px">
<asp:ListItem Value="0">Select Store</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Value="10101">Parkseed</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Value="10151">Wayside</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem Value="10201">Jackson (JP)</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="height: 20px; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px;">
<asp:Button ID="btnProcess" runat="server" Text="Process" Width="89px" OnClick="btnProcess_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
**<asp:TextBox ID="txtResults" runat="server" Height="200px" ReadOnly="True" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>**
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:HiddenField ID="hdnFilename" runat="server" />
</div>
<asp:UpdatePanel id="updVerifyChoice" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<div style="display: none;">
<asp:Button ID="btnDummy" UseSubmitBehavior="true" OnClientClick="ShowModalPopup" OnClick="btnDummy_Click" runat="server" />
<%--Dummy Button added to assign the target controlid of PopupExtender--%>
<asp:Button ID="btnDummyButton" UseSubmitBehavior="true" runat="server" Text="DummyButton" Style="display: none;" />
</div>
<asp:Panel ID="pnlVerifyRequestPopup" runat="server">
<div style="background: #fff; padding-left: 3px; border: 1px solid #989898; border-top: 1px solid #989898 !important;">
<table style="background-color: #F7F5F4; width: 300px;">
<tr>
<td><label>Verify Process Request</label></td>
<td style="text-align: right;">
<label class="lbl_3">
<asp:LinkButton ID="lBtnVerifyRequestClose" CssClass="lnkCloseheaderedit" Text="Cancel"
runat="server" OnClick="lBtnBillUpdPopClose_Click" /></label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 150px;" colspan="2">
<asp:Label ID="lblWarn" runat="server" Text="" Font-Size="Medium" ForeColor="#CC3300"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" class="align_right">
<asp:Button ID="btnPopVerify" runat="server" CssClass="order_searchbtn" Text="Okay"
OnClick="btnPopVerify_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:HiddenField ID="hdnReturnData" runat="server" />
</div>
</asp:Panel>
<ajax:ModalPopupExtender ID="extVerifyProcess" runat="server" BehaviorID="extndPopBillUpdBehId"
TargetControlID="btnDummyButton" PopupControlID="pnlVerifyRequestPopup" CancelControlID="lBtnVerifyRequestClose">
</ajax:ModalPopupExtender>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</asp:Content>
The field in question that should get the returned values from the function is called txtResults.
Here is the c# code (I cut out unneeded code)
namespace OrderManager
{
public partial class ProductRankLoader : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var currentUser = Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name.Split('\\')[1];
// Session.Add("returnText", "");
var header = Master.FindControl("lblpageheading") as Label;
header.Text = "Product Rank Loader";
if (IsPostBack)
{
try
{
//if (Session["Verified"].ToString() != "")
//{
Session["returnText"] = doProcess();
if (Session["returnText"].ToString() != "")
{
txtResults.Text = Session["returnText"].ToString();
lblMessage.Text = "";
}
//}
}
catch { }
} else
{
Session.Add("returnText", "");
Session.Add("Verified", "");
}
}
protected void btnProcess_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Boolean fileOK = false;
string filename = Path.GetFileName(fulRanks.FileName);
hdnFilename.Value = filename;
if (fulRanks.HasFile)
{
ddlStores.Enabled = true;
String fileExtension =
System.IO.Path.GetExtension(fulRanks.FileName).ToLower();
String[] allowedExtensions = { ".txt", ".log" };
for (int i = 0; i < allowedExtensions.Length; i++)
{
if (fileExtension == allowedExtensions[i])
{
fileOK = true;
fulRanks.SaveAs(@"c:\temp\" + filename);
}
}
}
if (!fileOK || ddlStores.SelectedIndex <= 0)
{
lblMessage.Text = "Either the file name is incorrect or a store has not been selected.";
return;
} else { }
lblWarn.Text = "You are going to update item Ranks for store <br />" + ddlStores.SelectedItem + ".<br /><br />Press 'Okay' to process";
Session.Add("Verified", "true");
extVerifyProcess.Show();
}
protected void lBtnBillUpdPopClose_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Session["Verified"] = "";
Session["returnText"] = "";
Response.Redirect("ProductRankLoader.aspx");
}
protected void btnPopVerify_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Session["returnText"] = doProcess();
Session.Remove("returnText");
Session.Remove("Verified");
}
private string doProcess()
{
string tmpResults = "";
Int32 store = 0;
if (ddlStores.SelectedIndex > 0)
{
Int32.TryParse(ddlStores.SelectedValue.ToString(), out store);
string filename = hdnFilename.Value;
ProductRankLoaderDLL.ProductRankLoaderDLL newRanks = new ProductRankLoaderDLL.ProductRankLoaderDLL(xxx);
List<string> results = newRanks.ProcessRanks();
foreach (string result in results)
{
tmpResults += result + '\r';
}
// txtResults.Text = tmpResults;
lblMessage.Text = "";
}
else
{
lblMessage.Text = "";
}
return tmpResults;
}
protected void btnDummy_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}
If I don't misunderstand your request your problem is caused by the postbacks. I think you can handle better your logic with jquery. For example you can use jquery to close the popup without performing postback:
$('#lBtnVerifyRequestClose').click(function (event) {
event.preventDefault();
$('#pnlVerifyRequestPopup').dialog('close');
});
the event.preventDefault() ensure that postback are not executed.
If you need server logic to put data on your popup you can bind a jquery function to the dialog on open event and retrieve there data / perform your logic. In this way your form will be submitted to the server only once at the end of the process.