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view in multiview timeout

Basically what I want to do is "timeout" a view. Similar to a javascript redirect after a certain amount of time except instead of redirecting, switching to a different view in the multiview. Anyone know how to do this?

Solution

  • Since MultiView doesn't have a client-side API, the way to do this is to manually create a __doPostBack call with the multiview ID as the source:

    __doPostBack('<%= multiview.UniqueID %>', 'switch');

    The second parameter is the event name/args; you can manually check this on the postback via:

    if (Request.Form["__EVENTTARGET"] != null && 
    Request.Form["__EVENTTARGET"].EndsWith(multiview.ID) && 
    Request.Form["__EVENTARGUMENT"] == "switch")

    And then switch the current view; there may already be a built-in command name to do this, I am not sure of that.