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• Datamex Intermediate

  Posted on Mar 28, 2011 (permalink)

  In the mvc grid, is is possible to create an extra command button to do a custom action? I'd like to add a button 'Edit' which doesn't edit inline (like the default command), but redirects the user to another view in which an edit form is shown.

• Rosen Rosen

  Posted on Mar 28, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Datamex,

  In order to achieve the desired functionality, you may use a template column which contains a link.
  
  client template:

  columns.Bound(c => c.CustomerID)

  .ClientTemplate(Html.ActionLink("Click Me", "Edit", "Customer", new { CustomerID = "<#= CustomerID #>" }, null).ToHtmlString());

  
  server template:
  

  columns.Bound(c => c.CustomerID).Template(c => {

       %>

       <%=Html.ActionLink("Click Me", "Edit", "Customer", new { c.CustomerID }, null)%>

       <%

   })

  
  More information about column templates can be found in our help documentation.
  

  
  

  All the best,
  Rosen
  the Telerik team

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• Datamex Intermediate

  Posted on Mar 28, 2011 (permalink)

  Thanks, but that would render a link right, not a button?

• Rosen Rosen

  Posted on Mar 29, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Datamex,

  Generally speaking the button html element will do a post request, thus a form element will be needed or you will need to handle the click event through javascript and navigate to the new page manually. Therefore, the easiest way to do a GET request and have a button like look is to style the anchor html element. You can take a look at such approach in this demo for example, where the select button is an anchor element to which is applied t-button css class, thus it is styled to look like a button.

  Regards,
  Rosen
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• Datamex Intermediate

  Posted on Mar 29, 2011 (permalink)

  Hmmm, I will try that. This is the kind of the reason why I'm still not so sure about MVC. Trivial things like this, just putting a button inside a grid, seem to be a lot harder then they are in just regular ASP.NET. Is it me not understanding the technique, or is it just the way MVC rolls...

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