Hi,

I've got a UserControl that contains a CMSRepeater control:

<cms:CMSRepeater ID="CMSRepeaterShapes" runat="server" ClassNames="My.Document">
    <ItemTemplate><%# RenderShapeLink(Eval("DocumentName").ToString(), Eval("NodeAliasPath").ToString()) %></a></ItemTemplate>
    <SeparatorTemplate> / </SeparatorTemplate>
</cms:CMSRepeater>

RenderShapeLink() is a function in the UserControl code behind.

My UserControl is included on a TemplatePage and relies on a Property being assigned to it in the TemplatePage's Page_Init().

Amazingly, CMSRepeater evaluates before Page_Init() has been fired. This causes the RenderShapeLink() method to run before the critical value in the UserControl has been set.

Even worse, I cannot set the UserControl's required Property in Page_PreInit() because the control has not been created in memory by that stage.

I'm having to use a standard Repeater now instead, and set everything manually.

What's going on here? Why does CMSRepeater evaluate so early in the ASP.NET page lifecycle?