asp.net gridview/listview edit mode causes sorting off the front page

richardsonja

Hello,

I've spent some time researching this but no luck so i thought i would post it. I have an ASP.NET listview or gridview. I click on the edit button and it turns into edit mode. with asp.net, it will do a post back. when that happens, the data table script will sort the edit line onto another page.

do you have any suggestions? the few i have come up with are:
Making that row the first row regardless of sorting? either programmatically or by a hidden from screen values.
programmatically locking the sort order, page, etc... so when it comes back it is in the same order?

I have found quite a few postings about inline editing using the datatable jquery functionality but not the basic asp.net edit functionality. My shop is about producing good software using tried and true methods. We have a lot of students so turn over is at least once a year. Your Data Table plugin is GREAT for this model...well any model but fits like a glove in our case.

any direction would be helpful. Thanks

richardsonja

the way i got around this was not to save state and have the first column that will have a text box to sort asc. now it shows up. its a work around but it works.