Hi,

Try this then.

The code is to be written on the OnEditing Event of the Gridview1 since u want to modify EditTemplates
foreach(GridViewRow gr in GridView1.Rows)
{
if (((Label)gr.FindControl("lblUserStatus")).Text=="a dmin")
{
((Label)gr.FindControl("lblUserName")).Visible=fal se;
((LinkButton)gr.FindControl("lnkbtnUserName")).Vis ible=true;
}
else
{
//viceversa
}
}
Assuming that u have a filed in gvw to distinguish admin. if no creat one and make its visible="false". it will be simpler

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