menu postback not working

[Guest]

My asp.net 2005 menu control has items with nothing in navigateUrl - meaning
it should postback when an item is selected. I have code in the Page_Load
which is supposed to call a method based on the selected menu item.

if (this.Menu1.SelectedItem.Value.Equals("1"))
processA();
if (this.Menu1.SelectedItem.Value.Equals("2"))
processB();

This does not work the first time the menu item is selected. It does work
the second time the menu item is selected.
I guess I STILL do not understand postback. Shouldn't this work for the
first selection?
Thanks

 

[Ben Dewey]

set the autopostBack = true on the Menu control. Also you should put the
posted code in the Menu1_Click event.

 

[Guest]

I do not see an autopostBack either throught the property sheet or though the
object. Also, I must have the menu selected item value in the Page_Load as
it is here that I must know which of my load routines to call (not in the
click event).
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Ben Dewey]

What kind of MenuControl are you using? Why do you need to run that code on
the Page_Load, when you need the user to click something anyways

It would be better to use:

void Page_Load(sender, e)
{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
ProcessDefault();
}

void Menu1_Click(sender, e)
{
if (this.Menu1.SelectedValue.Value == "1")
ProcessA();
if (this.Menu1.SelectedValue.Value == "2")
ProcessB();
}

 

[Guest]

The menu control is the standard menu control selected from the navigation
list of controls from the toolbox in VS 2005.
I must have the selected value in page_load because it is a report choice
and I must know what report they are requesting. I can only build the report
at load time (as I understand it).

 

[Guest]

Thanks much to Ben. I re-sequenced my test case and it worked--
Jay

 

[mschuch]

To Enable/Disable postbacks on Menu Items without a NavigateURL use the .Selectable property.

myMenuItem.Selectable = True

tells the menu to do a postback on the menuitem.