IF Statement in transformation

Alexander Toups asked on November 21, 2015 14:57

I'm trying to use a C# if-statement in a transformation of a basic repeater with a SQLDataSource, like this:

<% if(IsFirst()) { %>
        <p> Some text <%# Eval("MyField")%>
<% } %>

This works fine. But if it comes to checking agains a field value, like this:

<% if(Eval("MyField1").ToString()=="value") { %>
        <p> Some text <%# Eval("MyField2")%>
<% } %>

I'll get an server error. I want to avoid using K# statments like IfCompare, because then I have to put the whole output string into the function, which is becomes horrible when dealing with nested conditions.

Can anybody help?

transformation api

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Brenden Kehren answered on November 21, 2015 16:52

Are you using an ASCX transformation or a text transformation? The syntax you're showing is ASCX and standard C# syntax.

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Alexander Toups answered on November 21, 2015 18:05

Yes, ASCX.

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Timothy Fenton answered on November 23, 2015 13:43 (last edited on December 10, 2019 02:30)

Hello Alexander you should really use K# for this as even something as basic as:

<% Eval("MyField1").ToString(); %>

will cause a server error to be thrown, we do not have full support for this in ascx transformations. That being said you could do almost the identical thing in K# like this:

{% if(MyField1 == "value") { %}
 <p> Some text {% MyField2 %}</p>
{% } |(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

And it doesnt get any more messy than doing it in an in-line embedded code tag

Hope this works for you

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Joshua Myers answered on December 1, 2016 21:12 (last edited on June 12, 2018 13:19)

Using the ASCX transformation type, is there a way to wrap content in the IF statement that isn't all on one line?

This is how it is properly working right now:

<%# IfEmpty(Eval("ProgramCost"), "", "<h3>Estimated Program Cost</h3><p><strong>Total Tuition, Fees &amp; Books:</strong> " + Eval("ProgramCost") + "</p>")  %>

Here is how I'd like to be able to use it (but it currently gives me an error).

<%

  IfEmpty(Eval("ProgramCost"))
  {

%>
<h3>Estimated Program Cost</h3>
<p><strong>Total Tuition, Fees &amp; Books:</strong> <%# Eval("ProgramCost") %></p>
<%

  }

%>

There has got to be a way to make this happen!

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