How to show and hide a button field in gridview if a row contains an empty cell

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i have a gridview in my asp.net application. for example 
SN  name   Date     Action
1  mike          button(do something). 
This is just one out of my gridview rows. i want for every row that has an empty cell, button field cell for the row should show. if there's no empty cell in that row, the button should hide.What i get with my code is that all the button visible becomes false which i donot want.

What I have tried:

ASP.NET

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" Height="326px" OnPageIndexChanging="GridView1_PageIndexChanging" PageSize="5" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 169px" Width="1069px" OnSelectedIndexChanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged" OnRowDataBound="GridView1_RowDataBound" AutoGenerateColumns="False" OnRowCommand="GridView1_RowCommand" OnRowEditing="GridView1_RowEditing">

                       <Columns>
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="S/N" DataField="SN" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="First Name" DataField="FirstName" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Address" DataField="Address" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Phone Number" DataField="PhoneNumber" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Sex" DataField="Sex" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Reason" DataField="Reason" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="SignIn" DataField="SignIn_Time" />
                           <asp:BoundField HeaderText="SignOut" DataField="Signout_Time" />

                           <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Action" Visible="True">
                               <ItemTemplate>
                                   <asp:Button ID="out" runat="server" Text="Sign out" CommandName="SignOut"  CommandArgument='<%#Eval("SN") %>' CssClass="active"/>
                               </ItemTemplate>
                           </asp:TemplateField>
                       </Columns>

               <PagerSettings FirstPageText="First" LastPageText="Last" Mode="NumericFirstLast" PageButtonCount="5" />

code behind

C#

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
       {
            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
              {
                 for (int i =0 ; i < e.Row.Cells.Count; i ++)
                   {
                if (e.Row.Cells[i].Text == "&nbsp;")
                   {
                Button status = (Button)e.Row.FindControl("out");
                  status.Visible = true;

                    }
                   else {
               Button status = (Button)e.Row.FindControl("out");
               status.Visible = false;

                  }
                  }
           }


       }

Posted 10-Oct-16 6:11am

Mcbaloo

Updated 10-Oct-16 11:53am

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Solution 2

Have you tried debugging your code to verify if it hits your if-condition?

Also try to validate for empty values like this instead:

C#

Button status = (Button)e.Row.FindControl("out");
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Row.Cells[i].Text))
        status.Visible = true;
else
        status.Visible = false;

For details, see: String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace Method (String) (System)[^]

Posted 10-Oct-16 11:53am

Vincent Maverick Durano

Updated 10-Oct-16 11:54am

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koklimabc · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-10T06:40:00

Data Item of Field Value can be obtained in one by one during rowdatabound event.Don't be confused to run a iteration loop to get each values.If you have 'four' record count of query result it will automatically run in 4 times rowdatabound event.

C#

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    switch (e.Row.RowType)
    {
            case DataControlRowType.DataRow:
                DataRowView myDataRowView = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;
	            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(myDataRowView["yourfieldnames"].ToString()))
	            {
		           Button status = (Button)e.Row.FindControl("out");
	               if (status != null)
	               {
			           status.visible = false;
		           }
	            }
				break;
     }
}