Partial Page Updates

I have a page that originally had just one update panel that held everything inside of a few collapable panels on a 15 seconds timer trigger. The collapsable panels where sluggish in performance so I changed code where there were multiple update panels on the same 15 second timer trigger inside of the update panel that is not on a 15 second timer trigger. The problem is that I placed a label that wrote the current time to see if the outside panel was updating and it's still acting like it's on a timer like the ones inside the collapsable panels...but it's not on a timer anymore, just the inner update panels are. I've setEnablePartialRenderingto "true" in the script manager. What's my problem?

Here's my suedo-layout to give you a basic idea:

<timer1>
<updatepanel>
<content>
<label for current time>
<collapseablepanel extender>
<collapseablepanel1>
<updatepanel1>
<content></content>
<trigger=timer1></trigger>
</updatepanel1>
</collapsablepanel1>
<collapseablepanel2>
<updatepanel2>
<content></content>
<trigger=timer1></trigger>
</updatepanel2>
</collapsablepanel2>
<collapseablepanel3>
<updatepanel3>
<content></content>
<trigger=timer1></trigger>
</updatepanel3>
</collapsablepanel3>
</collapsablepanel extender>
</content>
</updatepanel>

Two things,

Firstly label control's update panel should be closed and rest should be seperate.

secondly try using literal control

Set the Timer as a trigger for the outer UpdatePanel.

I just want all of the inner update panels to update on the timer. The outer one is just for the collapsable panel extender, but it still updates with the rest of the inner ones for some reason. That's my problem; I just want the inner ones to update on the timer, but the outer one is updating even though it doesn't have a timer associated with it.

Set ChildrenAsTriggers to false on the outer one then. It's true by default.

Thank you! That worked...also, if I have 4 update panels set to the same trigger will it be like my page is loading 4 times? Should I do something different there?

The multiple panels shouldn't have a significant impact on performance either way. You can be sure by watching your page operate in Fiddler or FireBug, but it should just trigger a single partial postback per Tick that updates all four panels with its response.