Question

I have a dropdown list (FK) which I would like to set and display a default value based on a login userid. Can you please tell me how to do it? I only want to affect the dropdown filter that appear at the top above the Gridview.

Thanks

Nikos

Answer 1

If you only want this functionality in the DropDown list that appears in the Filter Criteria section, just modify the URL by adding the QueryString parameters you would like to filter by. The DynamicFilter will pick up the values from the QueryString and set the DropDown lists accordingly. (fyi. this is the same functionality that the ForeignKey.ascx FieldTemplate provides)

It would be nice if there was a better way to actually create this URL (instead of using string), but as of right now, any solution I provide is probably going to break in a subsequent version.

example (in page_load)

Response.Redirect("~/Employees/List.aspx?ReportsTo=1234");