Advice on whether repeater or other control

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Advice on whether repeater or other control

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jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2006-02-28 : 11:04:31

I need to display a product image along with (many side) points about that product in some sort of control. So I was wondering should I use a repeater for this?

Basically imagine these three tables:

Product (stores products that we sell)
-------
ProductID

Possible values: Engines, Transmissions, etc.

ProductImage (stores jsut the path of an image for a product)
-------
ProductID
ImageID

There is simply one image per product (one to one relationship)

Finally,

ProductFunction
---------------
ProductID
FunctionID

Possible values could be (one to many side, one product can have multiple functions associated with it).
Engine:
-engine block
-cylinder head
-piston/conrod
-intake and exhaust manifold

Transmission
-blah 1
-blah 2
-etc..

Etc (products...)

So basically I want to show something to the effect of the image itself of the product, and right next to the image all the functions of htat product (maybe a list format).

I thought of using a repeater, but wanted to get some advice on it first.

Thanks,
Jon

Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]

RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url]

karuna
Aged Yak Warrior

582 Posts

Posted - 2006-02-28 : 12:03:41

Jon,

Thinking of Sequential or Columnwise?
Sequential - Repeater, Columnwise - Datalist - I guess both might need bit of extra work to achieve what you want Or If I feel I have time to do bit of R&D, I might go with dynamic tables also, sometimes that gives me more control

Maybe somebody might give a better advice

Thanks

Karunakaran

jhermiz

3564 Posts

Posted - 2006-02-28 : 12:08:30

quote:
Originally posted by karuna

Jon,

Thinking of Sequential or Columnwise?
Sequential - Repeater, Columnwise - Datalist - I guess both might need bit of extra work to achieve what you want Or If I feel I have time to do bit of R&D, I might go with dynamic tables also, sometimes that gives me more control

Maybe somebody might give a better advice

Thanks

Karunakaran

I ended up using a combination of a datalist and a datarepeater, so far so good.

Jon

Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]

RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url]

karuna
Aged Yak Warrior

582 Posts

Posted - 2006-02-28 : 12:52:50

quote:
Originally posted by jhermiz

I ended up using a combination of a datalist and a datarepeater, so far so good.

Jon

Keeping the web experience alive -- [url]http://www.web-impulse.com[/url]

RS Blog -- [url]http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz[/url]

Combination of Datalist and Repeater? Sounds Cool...
I havent tried that combination so far..
Keep posted on how it goes...

Thanks

Karunakaran

DustinMichaels
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

464 Posts

Posted - 2006-02-28 : 13:19:30

Instead of using a Repeater and a DataList trying using two Repeaters. You can nest them if you have to.

Dustin Michaels

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