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Nicholas Walker
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Nicholas Walker asked on 23 Jul 2008, 08:04 PM
These seems like it should be simple, but for some reason I can not figure out how to do it.  I am handling the ItemCommand event of a hierachial self-referening grid.

I simply need to get the key of the item where the add new record button was clicked.

For example

Item 1
    Add new Record
    Sub Item 1
       Add new Record
Item 3
    Add new record
    Sub Item 2
       Add New Record


If I click on the Add new record button under Item 1, I need to get the key/value of Item 1.

If I click on Add new record under Sub Item 1, I need to get the key/value for Sub Item 1.

Seems like a simple thing, but I can't seem to get it.

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Nicholas Walker
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answered on 23 Jul 2008, 10:30 PM
I figured it out.

 Dim p As GridDataItem = e.OwnerTableView.ParentItem
x = p.OwnerTableView.DataKeyValues(p.ItemIndex)("CampaignCriteriaID")
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Shinu
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answered on 24 Jul 2008, 05:50 AM
Hi Nicholas,

You can also refer the follwing help document link which explains how to access the Primar Key value for the parent item.
Extracting primary key value for parent item in hierarchy on Update/Insert

Shinu.
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