Repeater & Data API

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Hi,

I’ve read all the documentation and several examples about the repeater element:

  1. Repeater has data and items member objects.
  2. To setup the items value, you need to pass the values to the data object and then on OnItemsReady event to pass the data object values to each item within the repeater.

I’ve created a page where the repeater should create new entries in a collection, I’ve populated the repeater with initial data (several rows) and was expecting that any change the user does on the item will be reflected on the data object in the repeater as well, i.e item values will be synced to the data. However, this didn’t happen and I had to read the repeater’s items one by one in order to save the repeater to the collection.

Am I doing something wrong? or the repeater items and data object are not being sync and when working with repeater without a dataset, I need to manually manage the items and data? why do I need the data object in this case?

thanks,

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Hi,

I’ll really appreciate an answer, mostly around how to use repeater when dataset is not connected to it, i.e what is the best practice in such a use case.

thanks,
Guy