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Topic: Needs Help with Container.DataItem

Posted By: Misty
Subject: Needs Help with Container.DataItem
Date Posted: 04 November 2004 at 8:05pm

I cannot figure out where I am supposed to put a ) for

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "", "<a href='" & (Container.DataItem("WebSite") & "'>Go To Web Site</a>", "")%>.

I got the following error message: BC30198: ')' expected.

I tried adding a ) to several places. It would not work. Can you please help me figure out where the ) should be?

Replies:

Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 04 November 2004 at 9:39pm

Misty wrote:

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "", "<a href='" & (Container.DataItem("WebSite")) & "'>Go To Web Site</a>", "")%>.

I think

Posted By: Misty
Date Posted: 04 November 2004 at 9:43pm

That didn't work. I had tried that before. I got the following error message: BC30057: Too many arguments to 'Public Function IIf(Expression As Boolean, TruePart As Object, FalsePart As Object) As Object'.

It's obviously a problem with the syntax somewhere. I tried putting another ) at the end, but it didn't work. I got the error message about needing ).

Here's the function that I am using: Function FieldValueIsMissing(objValueToCheck As Object) As Boolean

        if objValueToCheck is DBNull.Value Then
                 return True
        else
                 return False
        end if
End Function

Posted By: Leeb65
Date Posted: 05 November 2004 at 2:22am

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "", "<a href='" & Container.DataItem("WebSite") & "'>Go To Web Site</a>")%>

That should work.

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Lee

http://www.rheinsitemedia.de">

Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 05 November 2004 at 2:24am

it may not be a ) becasue of the ' and " in there it make it a bit hard. Try stripping it back to

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "One", "Two", "")%>.

You may have too many , in there.
it should be IIf(expression, truepart, falsepart)

I thnink you have IIf(expression, truepart, falsepart,extra part)

try

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "One", "Two")%>.

or

<%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "", "<a href='" & (Container.DataItem("WebSite")) & "'>Go To Web Site</a>")%>.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 05 November 2004 at 2:52am

This code definatley works, tweak it to yours:

<%# IIf(Databinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Popularity") > (New Devjunkies_Link_Manager.SettingsProvider).HotLimit, " <span class='hot'>Hot!</span>", String.Empty) %>

Posted By: Misty
Date Posted: 05 November 2004 at 1:26pm

I forgot to mention that I cannot use Databinder.Eval for this particular DataList. The line of code: <%# IIF(FieldValueIsMissing(Container.DataItem("WebSite")), "", "<a href='" & Container.DataItem("WebSite") & "'>Go To Web Site</a>")%>

that Leeb65 gave worked.