I am building a page with two select items in a form. Both display lists of employee names. I need to set each select so it shows a specific value when the page loads. Basically, the first record in the employee table contains "Not Yet Selected" as the first, middle, and last name and that record number is 1000.

What I have done as a temporary fix is to use jQuery to set the value of each select item, after a short timeout:

setTimeout(function(){
$('#SelectOriginatorName').val("1000";
$('#Reviewer_Name').val("1000";
$('.trigger').fadeIn(200);
},200);

This works sometimes but as you can guess is unreliable. I need an event to trigger my jQuery... sort of how the $(document).ready(function()); works.

Is there an event fired that I can use to set the values of those two select items on the page?

Hi Peter,
Such an event is available in the behaviors of HTML5 Data Bindnigs Extended Repeater: www.dmxzone.com/go/22752/html5-data-bindings-extended-repeater :
Check the video tutorial, please:
www.dmxzone.com/go/22828/using-html5-data-bindings-extended-repeater-events

I watched the video. My page only uses the database connection extenstion so I tried to add the behavior in the datasource on the page and it works. Now I just have to determine how best to use the event.