I need the grid below to be populated w/ a dept#, operation#, hour, empty text box. The grid will be populated w/ hours based on a starting value chosen a dropdown list. I.E. If they choose 06:00, it will populate a grid like 06:00, 07:00, 08:00, etc. so that the user can enter in a qty (an integer value) beside of each time (i.e. during the 06:00 hr, they should get 18 completed). So for all depts chosen in a listbox via a checkbox, it will create "hours" for all operations assigned to that dept. The problem is that the grid seems to be populated w/ empty rows. I can see that the correct grid lines get populated, but nothing is shown (not even the empty textbox). Here is the code. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance.

public class houritem
{
public string sDeptNum;
public string Op;
public string Hour;
public string Goal;
}


List<houritem> hourList = new List<houritem>();


private void ReadTableLoadTargetGrid() //(string theStartingPoint, string theDept)
{
hourList.Clear();

for (int x = 0; x < Grid2.Items.Count; x++)
{
Boolean checker = Convert.ToBoolean(Grid2.Items[x].Cells[0].Value);
if (checker == true)
{
sDeptNum = Grid2.Items[x].Cells["Deptnum"].Value.ToString().Trim();
SqlConnection myShopnetConnection = new SqlConnection(sConnectionString);
SqlDataReader myReader;
myShopnetConnection.Open();
mySelectQuery1 = "SELECT op FROM [ops] where deptnum = '" + sDeptNum + "' order by op";
SqlCommand myCommand1 = new SqlCommand(mySelectQuery1, myShopnetConnection);

myReader = myCommand1.ExecuteReader();
while (myReader.Read())
{
for (int i = Convert.ToInt32(this.ddlHoursList.SelectedValue.Trim()); i < 24; i++)
{
houritem hi = new houritem();
hi.sDeptNum = sDeptNum.ToUpper().Trim();
hi.Op = myReader.GetString(0).ToUpper().Trim();
hi.Hour = string.Format("{0:D2}:00", i);
// hi.Goal = "";
hourList.Add(hi);
}
}
myReader.Close();
myReader.Dispose();
myShopnetConnection.Close();
myShopnetConnection.Dispose();
}
}
//Grid1.RecordCount = 1000;
Grid1.DataSource = hourList;
Grid1.DataBind();
Grid1.SelectedItemIndex = -1;
}

OK, making them properties worked much better.

Now, how do I manually render the grid? What I mean is that I added an 'EDIT' column to the grid which, when clicked (which then turns to UPDATE CANCEL), allows me to enter text into the textbox and when UPDATE is clicked the value is stored in the box. How do I allow the textboxes to always be enabled. I do not want the user to have to click an EDIT button on every single row that requires a value to be entered into the textbox. FYI...According to the properties of the EO.Web reference, I'm running version 7.0.27.2.

Thanks for the quick response.
Do you have another suggestion for a quick method for the user to enter in the desired "Target Goal Quantities"? A grid just seemed to looked nice but the main objective is the ability for the supervisor to just quickly enter in 1 number for each hour of the day w/ as little clicking as necessary.