Question

I have a grid view which is populated from a database.

I need to make it so that each of the cells in a particular column, when clicked will link through to a second page and pass the cell’s text value as a query string (ie link to http://mysite.com/page.aspx?CellText=‘blah blah blah’). Sounds simple I know but I just can’t figure it out!

This is what my page looks like at the moment:

<asp:GridView id="gdvTargets" 
          runat="server" 
          AutoGenerateEditButton="true" 
          OnRowEditing="gdvTargets_RowEdit"
          OnRowUpdating="gdvTargets_RowUpdating" 
          OnRowUpdated="gdvTargets_RowUpdated" 
          OnRowCancelingEdit="gdvTargets_RowCancelingEdit"

          cssClass="grid"
          >
<HeaderStyle CssClass="GridHeader"></HeaderStyle>

And my c# code behind it:

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
year = Request.QueryString["YearSelector"];
targetType = Request.QueryString["TargetType"];

      gdvTargets.DataSource = this.Ets.Api.Util.Db.GetDataTable("EXEC sp_getTargets " + year + ", " + targetType).Return;
      gdvTargets.DataBind();

    }

This results in a table which looks something like this:

ID        System        Target 1       Target 2       Target3       Target 4
0         ALL           10             20             15             10
2         Machine1      4              7              7              7
5         Xfgb 45       6              13             8              3

I would like the system column to be clickable and link through to a new page but take the name of the system with it. Hope this makes sense! Thanks for your help 😀

Answer 1

What you can do is the following:

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
            e.Row.Cells[0].Text = "<a href=''>" + e.Row.Cells[0].Text + "</a>";
}

Replace 0 by your column index