Nood needs Ajax help

[leelo]

Hija doods,

I'm not a programmer, not a web developer and not an expert in html, java, asp VB or css. I do know my way around a lot of things tho, I'm not completely inexperienced, I tinker with a lot of things. I am an Cisco Network engineer and I do develop a few web tools (leant code as I need it from google) to simplify and/or automate things for myself and some collegues. I've played a bit with Javascripting, VB Code, etc on my Win2K3 IIS6 server, Linux Fedora 6 Apache server, interlink datasources with MySQL and SQL Server 2005 etc etc. IOW, I do know a couple of things, but I'm no expert.

Right so with the formalities out the way. I've got Ajax.net 2.0 installed on my W2K3 server thats running a network monitoring program that has a web application written in ASP. There's no authentication required to view pages because I've configured it to bybass authentication.
I can therefore open direct links to pages that generate Tables of statistics for Network nodes that I monitor, additionally pages that produce graphs - say 24hr average utilization graphs.

Now I have a set of common tasks that I do, like 8 individual nodes that I report on daily, each one has a statics table format page (loaded from an .aspx file with some variables at the end), with numbers indicating various things like Averages, peaks etc. to support that information I have a Graph page loaded from a seperate page (loading from a different aspx file with various variables at the end)

The Crunch is, I've been hunting around and trying some code (Ajax - Since I have Ajax.net 2.0 installed - yes and .net 2.0/3.0 & 3.5), but I'm stumped. What I want to do is combine all the page calls into one page so that I can use it as a single report.

The best I've done is to create a run of functions calling XHConn.js using GET method, with the result being displayed if I create a {button onload=myfunction()} {/button} displaying the output in whatever DIV i created.
Although it is functional and each one works collecting exacly what I need, its not what I want, I want to have the whole page loaded with all those calls displaying on one page.... any ideas?

Or should I say, has anyone done ajax work using XHConn.js and can help me?

 

[Raithlin]

I've not used XHConn.js explicitly, but I'm currently finishing up a project that uses AJAX Pro, which follows the same concept.

Basically what you need is a page/web service that returns the XML/HTML that you want to display in the div. You seem to have the concept right (based on http://xkr.us/code/javascript/XHConn/ and what you have written), so what's holding you back? All you need to do is have the single page call all the server methods - possible with buttons linked to each function so you can refresh each report at will without refreshing the whole page.

BTW, Microsoft AJAX is mostly server-side, and only really ideal if you're going to throw yourself wholeheartedly into using the controls, etc. that come with it.