Hi all,

I'm building an appointment booking system. I'm allowing the user to create Master Days, with Master Booking Slots, from which they can create date-specific Days with Slots.

Each Master Day can have a different number of slots, so I build the set of textboxes (for start time) and dropdownlists (for services offered at that time) dynamically.

My problem is copying the set of services into each of the dynamic dropdownlists.

I've created a hidden ddl from the database, populated depending upon certain criteria. I then use the following code :

DropDownList ddlCat = (DropDownList)this.pnlMDaySlots.FindControl("ddlCat" + Convert.ToString(i + 1));

DropDownList ddlCat = (DropDownList)this.pnlMDaySlots.FindControl("ddlCat" + Convert.ToString(i + 1));

, the number of each is dependant upon a pre-built list

Hi,

if you put

ddlCat.DataTextField = "Text";
ddlCat.DataValueField = "Value";

Does that help?

Hi Joteke,

Yeah, I've tried that, and I get a run-time error :

          DropDownList ddlCat = (DropDownList)this.pnlMDaySlots.FindControl("ddlCat" + Convert.ToString(i + 1));

          ddlCat.DataValueField = "cat_id";

         ddlCat.DataTextField = "cat_name";

         ddlCat.DataSource = ddlCat_Hidden.Items;

        ddlCat.DataBind();

                                    DataBinding: 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem' does not contain a property with the name 'cat_name'.

 Similarly, if I try to make the new ddl DataValueField & DataTextField equal to the hidden ddl fields, I get the same problem.

I might just use a FOR loop to populate each occurrence, but I thought there ought to be an easy way to do this.

Thanks.

 Stu

Yes, put it literally as I posted. ListItem does have Value and Text proeprties

ddlCat.DataTextField = "Text";
ddlCat.DataValueField = "Value";

Wow thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've seen code using the 'Text' and 'Value' strings, but didn't realise that's what I needed to put.

Many thanks !!