Wizard Control, UpdatePanel, and Validation causes error in webresource.axd Bug

I have a wizard control with several steps, some of which use control validation. When placed inside an Ajax UpdatePanel, the webresource.axd javascript is no longer able to reference the controls validated in the previous step, and halts on:

WebResource.axdfunction ValidatorGetValue(id) { var control; control = document.getElementById(id); if (typeof(control.value) == "string") { return control.value; } return ValidatorGetValueRecursive(control);}

where the document.getElementById(id); returns null.

A workaround is to disable clientside validation on all validation controls, which is not a great loss when using ajax, but utterly annoying when you have gone to all the trouble of writing javascript for custom validation controls, etc.

The cause is probably complex, so I shall not comment on how it should be resolved. I assume, however, that the javascript is correct in that the controls not being rendered are in fact to be found in the DOM.

At least in my case, it would be nice if the javascript checked for null and ignored the control if it wasn't there.

Anyhow, it would be much appreciated if someone would look into it.

Thanks

In Atlas 1.0 we have updated versions of the validators that are compatible with UpdatePanel. In the current CTP I'm afraid that you'll have to use some workaround.

Thanks,

Eilon

This sounds like it could be related to my problem:

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1412888.aspx

What work arounds are available for this issue? At the moment I'm displaying all the controls in divs and just hiding them, which is pretty horrible.

Thanks,

Paul

Wizard inside of update panel, still getting postbacks

Hi,

I placed a wizard inside of an update panel and when I click on the button for the next step, I still get a postback. I have tried setting the mode to conditional and it still occurs.

I even tried making a new atlas website and putting nothing but the update panel with the wizard inside and it still does not work. Here is the code below. Any idea what I am doing wrong??

<atlas:ScriptManagerID="ScriptManager1"runat="server"/><div><atlas:UpdatePanelID="UpdatePanel1"runat="server"Mode="Conditional"><ContentTemplate><asp:WizardID="Wizard1"runat="server"><WizardSteps><asp:WizardSteprunat="server"Title="Step 1"></asp:WizardStep><asp:WizardSteprunat="server"Title="Step 2"></asp:WizardStep></WizardSteps></asp:Wizard></ContentTemplate></atlas:UpdatePanel>

Hi,

it seems that you are not setting EnablePartialRendering="True" in the ScriptManager control.

Yes you are right. In the sample code I pasted that was the problem (and I feel very stupid). However in my actual code I did remember to set partial rendering to true.

Now, that being said, I think I figured out what was wrong, and hopefully the Atlas guys watching this forum can tell us if I am correct.

A little more background on the page first, it is a content page and the master page has a flash banner on it that I put their using the asp.net 2.0 flash control. On my developoment machine I didn't have the flash file it was pointing to. Instead of throwing an exception when I view the page in my browser it just kept perpetually loading the page.

It occured to me that the update panel may not work properly if the page had never completed loading before a postback was called. All I had to do was copy the flash file from the webserver to my development system and VOILA! The page loads, the update panel works.

Hi,

glad to hear that you solved it :) I'll bookmark this post for future reference.

WYSIWYG text editor compatible with UpdatePanel

Does anyone know of a WYSIWYG Text Editor that works when placed inside an UpdatePanel? I tried two (FckEditor and obout's editor). Both of them failed. Thanks!

http://forums.asp.net/p/1028530/1406390.aspx#1406390

Thanks! this is exactly what i needed