Nested Repeaters - have 3 repeaters

Question

I understand the OnItemDatabound attribute on the Parent Repeater ... makes sense

Here is my question:

lets say my data is structured as follows:

<List>
Parent Level Movie String
   Next Level : Amenities <List>
       Next level:   Showtimes <List>

So I was creating a List of Movies, within that list of Movies is a List of Amenities, within that list of Amenities is the Showtimes

  Movies is Repeater 1 Amenities is Repeater 2 Child of Repeater 1 Showtimes is Repeater 3 Child of Repeater 2 

So, my question is Movies is in a list, and each of the different Repeater items are in a list, can those lists just be used as the DataSource for each Child Repeater, since the data is already contained.

Answer 1

Yes, they can. It's not even hard. Your markup can just look something like this:

<asp:Repeater runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>' />

        <asp:Repeater runat="server" DataSource="Amenities ">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("SomeField") %>' />

                <asp:Repeater runat="server" DataSource="Showtimes">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" 
                            Text='<%# Eval("SomeOtherField") %>' />
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:Repeater>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:Repeater>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>