LinkButton in a Repeater in a Multiview in an UpdatePanel!

[xMetalDetectorx]

I am having trouble with the postbacks that are fired within my updatepanel by the linkbuttons. Here is the structure of my page:

UpdatePanel

MultiView

View1

/View1

View2

Repeater

LinkButtons being generated here

/Repeater

/View2

/MultiView

/UpdatePanel

Here is my link button code

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkSelect" runat="server" OnClick="SelectOrganization"  CommandName="OrgID">SELECT</asp:LinkButton>

Whenever I click on any of the LinkButtons that are generated, it does a Postback in the UpdatePanel. But the OnClick function is not being called. It just does the void Page_Load() function. That's it.

The controls in my other views work fine, but I'm having trouble with these controls. I think it has to do with them being generated by the Repeater.

Has anyone run into this problem before? Thanks in advance!

[xMetalDetectorx]

Update:

I made these changes to my code after reading up on Repeaters and Events.

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" OnItemCommand="SelectOrganization">

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkSelect" runat="server" CommandName="OrgID" CommandArgument='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "OrgID")%>'>SELECT</asp:LinkButton>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

and in the code behind:

protected void SelectOrganization(object sender, RepeaterCommandEventArgs e)
    {

        lblInfo.Text = "You picked: " + e.CommandArgument.ToString(); //This label is right below the repeater, inside the UpdatePanel
    }

Found a workaround:

1) The problem arose from the Postback of the LinkButtons. The Postback made all the info in the repeater vanish (because i turned off Viewstate at Application level)

2) On PageLoad i have to databind() the Repeater again in order for it to work.


The problem here is the Repeater gets its values from the DB. So if I have to Databind it again on page_load, that is essentially making 2 DB calls! =(

I tried enabling the viewstate of just the repeater, but that didn't help. Any other suggestions?

[Frinavale]

Well...if you disable ViewState I don't really see a way around calling the databind method (I would do this in the PagePrender event instead of the PageLoad event).

Did you try enabling the ViewState for the application?
Did this work?

-Frinny

[xMetalDetectorx]

If i turn on Viewstate, it works fine. I haven't found another way besides databinding it.