CreateUserWizard control: forcing it to use a programmatically provided username and e-mail

[Ken Fine]

I am using ASP.NET's CreateUserWizard control. I want to force the visitor
to use a username and e-mail address that I am providing in programming, and
I do not want the visitor to be able to edit the forms input.

I am aware that I can roll my own Create User form by using the membership
API, but I am lazy and want to use most of the CreateUserWizard control's
features.

I tried converting the form to a template and setting the UserName and Email
forms to Enabled="false" and populating their values programmatically. The
client-side validation behaviors prevent this from working: the non-enabled
items get red asterisks on input.

I imagine I could set the value for the names/e-mails in programming
regardless of the user's input, but I want to cue the visitor that they are
not allowed to change these values from what I am specifying.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
-KF

 

[Ken Fine]

A bit more information: ASP.NET does have a "SubmitDisabledForm" boolean
property that can be attached to the form tag for the page. This does not
help with the client-side validation behavior I describe below.

-KF

 

[Ken Fine]

OK, this ranks in the "duh" department, though the information I provided in
my last message regarding the SubmitDisabledForm property may be useful for
someone in the future.

To deal with the issue I describe below, convert the CreateUserWizard
control to a template, and simply go into the source and strip out the
RequiredFieldValidator controls from the controls that you are making
mandatory defaults.

-KF

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi Ken,

Thanks for sharing your solution with us.

As for the Email field in CreateuserWizard, you can also consider set the
TextBox to readonly mode (via the "readonly" html attribute). e.g.

======
<asp:TextBox ID="Email" runat="server" onload="Email_Load"
readonly="true"></asp:TextBox>

==========

Thus, you can still programmtically assign value to the TextBox and the
value will be posted back when form is submit(validator will work correctly
with it).

Hope this also helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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From: "Ken Fine" <[email protected]>
Subject: SOLVED i think Re: CreateUserWizard control: forcing it to use a

programmatically provided username and e-mail