Basic GridButtonColumn LinkButton Events Handling

[James O'Brien]

This maybe RadGrid 101 but I need to know how to handle an event when a LinkButton is clicked. I don't want to use the standard edit and delete buttons cause I have a lot of custom code that needs to run. I want to have the LinkButton button clicked, it launches an event, in that event I pull the AnnouncementID or any data from that row and then do the custom code.

<telerik:RadGrid ID="gridAnnouncements" runat="server"
        AutoGenerateColumns="false" onneeddatasource="gridAnnouncements_NeedDataSource">
            <MasterTableView DataKeyNames="AnnouncementID">
                <Columns>
                    <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="AnnouncementID" Display="false"></telerik:GridBoundColumn>
                    <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Title" HeaderText="Title"></telerik:GridBoundColumn>
                    <telerik:GridCheckBoxColumn DataField="isNewsFlash" HeaderText="News Flash" ReadOnly="false"></telerik:GridCheckBoxColumn>
                    <telerik:GridCheckBoxColumn DataField="isFeatured" HeaderText="Featured"  ReadOnly="false"></telerik:GridCheckBoxColumn>
                    <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="UpdatedDate" HeaderText="Last Updated"></telerik:GridBoundColumn>
                    <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="UpdatedBy" HeaderText="Last Updated By"></telerik:GridBoundColumn>
                    <telerik:GridButtonColumn ButtonType="LinkButton" Text="Edit"></telerik:GridButtonColumn>
                    <telerik:GridButtonColumn ButtonType="LinkButton" Text="Delete"></telerik:GridButtonColumn>
                </Columns>
            </MasterTableView>
        </telerik:RadGrid>

How do I click the edit button and pull the AnnouncementID in the server side code?

[Princy]

Hi James,

You can set the CommandName property for the  GridButtonColumn whcih will fire the ItemCommand event . You can then access  the datakey value from here as shown below:
C#

 protected void RadGrid1_ItemCommand(object source, GridCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.CommandName == "Edit")
        {
            GridEditableItem editedItem = (GridEditableItem)e.Item;
            string ProductID = editedItem.GetDataKeyValue("ProductID").ToString();
        }
    }

Thanks,
Princy