hi,

I'm lost. I don't really follow the code here. Why would I modify the edititemtemplate AFTER someone hits the 'Edit' button. Shouldn't I do that as the gridview is being rendered or something? And I already mentioned that I don't want to put both a label and a textbox in each column's edit item template and then swap between them.
Please let me know if there's a better alternative for me to be able to display the information the way I want and make sure users can't edit data in individual columns when they don't have admin access. I'd REALLY hate to have to create a duplicate gridview just because I'm using Template Items for columns!
I don't use a field in the gridview to distinguish admin vs. non-admin. I have access levels for each user stored in a database by userid. When a user accesses the site initially, I read their access level and store it in a session variable that's used throughout their session to determine access to various parts of the site. It's just controlling access to individual columns that I'm having trouble with.

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