I'm having some trouble getting a command link in a gridview to maintain it's ability to change tabs after the initial postback. So below you will see the structure of my content (heavily simplified):
<ajaxToolkit:TabContainer runat="server" ID="tabBody">
<ajaxToolkit:TabPanel runat="server" ID="tabPanel1">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="updPanel1">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Gridview runat="server" ID="grd1" OnRowCommand="grd1_RowCommand" OnRowDataBound="grd1_RowDataBound">
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkChangePanels" runat="server" CommandArgument='<%#Eval("id") %>' CommandName="gotopanel2" Text='<%#Eval("FirstName") & " " & Eval("LastName")%>' />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</asp:Gridview>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</ContentTemplate>
</ajaxToolkit:TabPanel>
<ajaxToolkit:TabPanel runat="server" ID="tabPanel2">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="updPanel2">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Gridview runat="server" ID="grd2">
</asp:Gridview>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</ContentTemplate>
</ajaxToolkit:TabPanel>
</ajaxToolkit:TabContainer>
In order to fill the gridview on panel 1, there is a search box which the user types into and I call a function to bind a linq query to it.
Now I add the rowcommand as a postback trigger on rowdatabound:
Protected Sub grd1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs)
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
Dim lb As LinkButton = CType(e.Row.FindControl("lnkChangePanels"), LinkButton)
If Not lb Is Nothing Then
ToolkitScriptManager1.RegisterPostBackControl(lb)
End If
End If
End Sub
Then here is the code I have to trigger the tab panel to change (and do some other stuff):
Protected Sub grd1_RowCommand(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewCommandEventArgs) Handles grd1.RowCommand
Dim id = e.CommandArgument.ToString()
Select Case e.CommandName
Case "gotopanel2"
eventDetails(id, "C")
tabBody.ActiveTab = tabPanel2
End Select
End Sub
This causes a proper postback and changes the tab, everything works as intended. But if I go back to the first tab and try clicking another row in gridview 1, nothing happens.
Is there a way to structure this so the that either the tab can change without losing the postback trigger or am I going about this all wrong?
Thanks.