RadGrid Hide Column but Send Data

[Marcel]

Hello everyone,
i am trying to hide columns in a RadGrid through the OnColumnCreated-event in the code-behind.
The Radgrid is bound to the Data in the PageLoad by just assigning a DataTable as DataSource.
On the clientside the hidden columns should really just be hidden, so that i can access them through JavaScript because i want to react on OnRowClick and need the information.

var grid = sender;
var MasterTable = grid.get_masterTableView();

var row = MasterTable.get_dataItems()[args.get_itemIndexHierarchical()];

var value1= MasterTable.getCellByColumnUniqueName(row, "HiddenRow1").innerHTML;
var value2= MasterTable.getCellByColumnUniqueName(row, "HiddenRow2").innerHTML;

The OnRowClick then does an async postback by using the RadAjaxManager and then i can handle everything in the code behind but i still need those values.
How can i hide columns and still get access them on the client side?
Or is there a way to use just the rownumber to get the Row and its values on the server side?

[Princy]

Hello Marcel,

Try hiding the column using Display property rather than Visible property and then access the cell value. Here is the sample code that I tried which worked as expected.
C#:

protected void RadGrid1_ColumnCreated(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.GridColumnCreatedEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Column.UniqueName == "UniqueName")
  {
    GridBoundColumn col = (GridBoundColumn)e.Column;
    col.Display = false;
  }
}

Thanks,
Princy.

[Marcel]

Works perfectly!
Thanks.

[Srujan]

Hi Princy ,

I have a masterdetail table , I am unable to hide column in details view , can you please suggest how to proceed .

[Eyup]

Hi Srujan,

You can achieve this requirement either on server or client-side by using the Name property of the table views:

<telerik:GridTableView ... Name="Customers">

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Eyup
Telerik

 

 

[C]

Hmmm, in my grid, the ColumnCreated event only fires for "ExpandCollapseColumn". It doesn't seem to fire for my GridBoundColumns?

[Maria Ilieva]

Hello,

The RadGrid ColumnCreated event should fire for all kind of columns in RadGrid. Please make sure that you handle the event correctly and also that you are setting a breakpoints for the event itself and not for some condition in the handler which is not hit for Bound Columns.

Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik

 

 

[C]

Yeah, well, I can't seem to get it to work.

<telerik:RadGrid ...
OnColumnCreated="rgActivities_OnColumnCreated" ...>
...
</telerik:RadGrid>

protected void rgActivities_OnColumnCreated(object sender, GridColumnCreatedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Column.UniqueName != "EventDateID")
            return;
        var col = (GridBoundColumn)e.Column;
        col.Display = false;
    }

[Maria Ilieva]

Hi C,

Can I kindly ask you to open a regular support ticket and send us isolated runnable version of your application? Thus we will be able to debug it locally and verify what exactly is causing the ColumnCreated event to not fire correctly.

Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik

 

 

[Graham]

I'm observing the same behavior as 'C': the ColumnCreated event only fires for "ExpandCollapseColumn". It doesn't fire for any of the GridBoundColumns.  

[Maria Ilieva]

Hi Graham ,

Note that this event fires only for auto-generated columns.


Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik