[Chantelle]

I shall post this here as i know a few of you are keen web developers or well I guess they might, I think a few of you have done some VB, programming and web developing isnt my specilisational skills (although im trying oto learn it all fast)

basically i have a dropdownlist on my companies intranet site, now I want the dropdown list to redirect based on the answer, the list if you select a document like "BLANK MEMO" it opens up a blank memo document which I have in my web folder or alternatively if you say selected google you could redirect to goodle.

so on this I have made a protected sub and used some code which I foudn since my version was slightly off but have edited accordingly..

it goes as so..

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Protected Sub DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged

        Response.BufferOutput = True
        If DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Text = "Telephone list" Then
            Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com")
        ElseIf DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Text = "Blank Memo" Then
            Response.Redirect("memo.doc")
        ElseIf DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Text = "Blank Fax Document" Then
            Response.Redirect("fax.doc")
        ElseIf DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Text = "3" Then
            Response.Redirect("http://www.microsoft.com/gohere/look_esp.htm")
        End If


    End Sub

Now When the option is selected, nothing happens.

I ran debugging and traced it but it appears not to acctally execute when it is selected.

Any ideas at all?

[Kenshin]

iv only done a little of this at skool so i cud be completly wrong.. ( and i mean completly)

the else and If are like this ElseIf there shouldnt be an If after Else? ^_^

[Chantelle]

depends because with the basic scripts on some apps i have here at work they are... (hang on let me find one)

no thats the same

I always though it was generally

If <such and such is TRUE do this blah blah>
ElseIF <this then do this>

End If.

Do you mean as in "Else If"?

I think they have to be together so it recognises its command as not the orignal IF, as far as I understand as long as it find a vlue which is true it shouldn't move onto the rest of the code it will return to end if..

So its like if this is true OTHERWISE try this OTHERWISE try this END.

Thanks for trying

[Scythe]

hmmm interesting :3 very interesting, i may be able to help but i'll have to resort to my book at this time.... i'll let you know if i can figure anything out for you, even though i should already know since programming is a major part of my... well... Major.

*edit*

or if you want it really quick, i do have class today i could always print this off and ask my professor. (so if you see this message in time let me know, if you would like me to ask him today)

[Chantelle]

Thanks, however I think the code is now right (I checked with a coder who is also a web developer) he seems to think the code is right (unless of course you may think otherwise and wanna check?).

So it may be the content itself or how its set to work.

[Scythe]

hmmmm well I might check my prof for you anyways, just maybe to get a second opinion for you. but for all i can see... it should work.

[Chantelle]

I know whats wrong, my mates web gave me a pointer after he spent an hour trying to work it out

need to enable the object to auto post back.. makes perfect sense to be honest

I did also make the object databound at one point, choosing the answers to be queried from a SQL server DB.. in the end I just added list items then done it..

A few things on SQL confuse me when using gridviewers in visual studio.