Question

I have a delete button in my gridview, but I want this button not to work depending on the result of an sql query.

An example

I have a gridview with “ship containers”, and I want to remove one of the container from this list, but I want to display a message “to be able to delete this container, please remove it from the products”, so that if a ship container is in use, I need to prevent it from being deleted.

Answer 1

Here is the way you can do this:

<asp:GridView ID="EntityGridView" runat="server" DataKeyNames="DocumentId" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
    AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="False" SkinID="GridViewSmall" OnRowCommand="EntityGridView_RowCommand"
    OnPageIndexChanged="EntityGridView_PageIndexChanged">
    <Columns>
        <asp:TemplateField ItemStyle-CssClass="TemplateFieldThreeColumns">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" ImageAlign="Top" runat="server" ImageUrl='<% #ResolveImageUrl(Eval("Extension").ToString()) %>'
                    ToolTip='<%# Eval("Extension").ToString() %>' CommandName="Select" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("DocumentId") %>' />
            <asp:ImageButton ID="btnDelete" runat="server" ToolTip="<% $resources:AppResource,Delete %>"
                SkinID="DeletePage" OnClientClick="<%# GetDeleteConfirmation(Resources.AppResource.ConfirmDocumentDelete) %>"
                CommandName="CustomDelete" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("DocumentId") %>' Visible='<% #AllowDocDelete(Container.DataItem) %>' />
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Title" HeaderText="<% $resources:AppResource,Title %>" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Author" HeaderText="<% $resources:AppResource,Author %>" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="FileName" HeaderText="<% $resources:AppResource,FileName %>" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Created" HeaderText="<% $resources:AppResource,Created %>" />
    </Columns>
    <EmptyDataTemplate>
        <asp:Label ID="EmptyLabel" runat="server" Text='<%# Resources.AppResource.NoContentToDisplay %>' CssClass="NoDataLabel"></asp:Label>
    </EmptyDataTemplate>
</asp:GridView>

Take notice on AllowDocDelete function that disables delete button. This function should be declared inslide your page class, something like this:

    public bool AllowDocDelete(object item)
    {
        bool result = false; 
        //TODO: check your condition
        return result;
    }

Item object represents binded entity.