[megglz]

I have a method I want to use on two gridviews which contain different information, ideally i want to do an if statement, something like

if (GridView.ID = "GridView_ABC") {

// do this

}

else if (GridView.ID = "GridView_2") {

// do this

}

is this possible in some way?

[Frinavale]

Best way to find out is first hand
Try it and find out if it works! If you run into problems ask

-Frinny

[megglz]

I already did, but the only options I have if I type 'GridView.' are Equals and ReferenceEquals. Maybe reference equals?? Hmmm

Edit: Nope

[Frinavale]

Well it would help if you mentioned what method you are attempting to do this within.
Somehow you need to get a reference to the specific GridView that you're working with. Using that instance you can access the GridView's properties, methods etc.

Just typing GridView will give you access to the GridView Type. It's not very helpful if you want to access the properties of a specific instance of a GridView (which is an Object).

-Frinny

[megglz]

I'm trying to check if the grid's time field contains this month or the previous month.

here it is, working for one grid

           protected bool rowFromPrevMonth(GridViewRow r)
            {
                 DateTime dt = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1);
                string currentMonth = dt.ToString("MMMM");
                string year = String.Format("{0:yyyy}", DateTime.Now);
                prevMonth += " " + year;
         
                string prev = ((HiddenField)r.Cells[2].FindControl("HiddenTime")).Value;
 
               if (prevMonth == prev)
                {
                    return true;
                }

                return false;
            }

[Frinavale]

Use the look through the GridViewRow Members for something that would help you get a reference to the GridView that it is part of (try the Parent Property for example). For some reason there is something tugging at my memory about using the naming container but...not sure if it would help you much in this case. I think the Parent property will do fine

-Frinny

[megglz]

Cheers, Frinny, will investigate Have a good weekend

[Jayman]

Pass the GridView ID as a parameter to your method. Then you can determine which GridView it is.

Example:

protected bool rowFromPrevMonth(string gvID, GridViewRow r)
 {

     if (gvID == "GridView_ABC") {

        // do this
      }
      else if (gvID == "GridView_2") {

        // do this
     }

     DateTime dt = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1);
     string currentMonth = dt.ToString("MMMM");
     string year = String.Format("{0:yyyy}", DateTime.Now);
     prevMonth += " " + year;

     string prev = ((HiddenField)r.Cells[2].FindControl("HiddenTime")).Value;

    if (prevMonth == prev)
     {
         return true;
     }

     return false;
 }

[Frinavale]

Yup that's probably the easiest way to accomplish this...but then doesn't get to play with the Parent property!

-Frinny

[Jayman]

So true.

If she does choose to get a reference to the control from the GridViewRow, either the Parent property or the NamingContainer will both work equally well.