Hi

on item data bound change your output as you want...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.datagrid.itemd
atabound(VS.80).aspx

Best of luck

Munna

www.munna.shatkotha.com

Hi Mark,

For your scenario, since the string transforming logic is not that
simple(you need to format both the display string and the url string ), I
think you'd better write a helper function in codebehind and call this
function to perform transform in your databinding control.  

Here is a test function I've written which accept an input string and
transform it to output html hyperlinks:

===========================
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       string ret =parse_string("Earth.New Zealand.Auckland.Henderson.New
Account");

       Response.Write("<br/>" + ret);
   }

   string parse_string(string input)
   {
       const string stmp = "<a
href='http://www.mysite.com/showgroups/?GroupName={1}'>{0}</a>";

       
       string[] items1 = input.Split('.');
       string[] items2 = new string[items1.Length];

       for (int i = 0; i < items1.Length; ++i)
       {
           items2[i] =string.Join(".", items1, 0, i + 1);
       }

     
       StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
       sb.AppendFormat(stmp, items1[0], items2[0]);

       for (int i = 1; i < items1.Length; ++i)
       {
           sb.Append("."); sb.AppendFormat(stmp, items1[i], items2[i]);
       }
       return sb.ToString();
       
   }
=========================

You can call this funcction in your databinding control to format the
certain data field (string value).

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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