Naomi, There would not be any reason to subclass the business object. The whole idea of a business object is to have a single source for control of the business rules. From the class you can instantiate several instances, but in this case that probably isn't the right approach either.
Tim

>Tegron,
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>I apologize in advance if this is an incorrect suggestion, but by just reading your question I got the following idea - subclass the Request BO under different name, say, GuardianRequests.
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>Perhaps this would then work.
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>Though may be there are better methods available here.
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>>Is there a way to instantiate a business object twice and use it with different values? I would appreciate any recommendations somone can offer.
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>>I have two tabs on a webform that contain two different grid items. I have created two different form-level variables and I retrieve data into these two business objects:
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>>e.g. this.IRequests & MCARequests
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>>The problem is I can only bind to one.
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>>They're instantiate like the following:
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>> this.IRequest = (Request)this.RegisterBizObj(new Request());
>> this.MCARequest = (Request)this.RegisterBizObj(new Request());
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>>I fill them like this:
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>> this.IRequest.GetRequestsByGuardianID(this.guardianID, 1);
>> this.MCARequest.GetRequestsByGuardianID(this.guardianID, 2);
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>>When I bind it only shows one business object available. Is there a way to display two different business objects that have different names, so tha tI can bind each grid to them. Currently they are both displaying the same data in both grids. If I can instantiate the same business object with a different name and register the two names with the form, I think that this would solve my problem.