Telerik RadGrid can be used either as a flat grid or as hierarchical grid.
Flat Grid
The flat grid means that there will be only one level, i.e. there will be no hierarchy. In this case there is only one table view: this is the MasterTableView and it has no children tables. The flat grid is very similar to the default DataGrid, yet providing much richer functionality.
Hierarchical Grid
The hierarchical grid provides a level of nesting for its tables. You can have as many levels as you need or as many as your DataSource allows. In this case there is a MasterTableView (the topmost table), which has one or more children tables called DetailTables, which in their turn can have children tables and so on. Thus the tables form a hierarchical structure.
Telerik RadGrid allows you to work with each table independently. However, setting the properties to the RadGrid object will set them globally for all inner tables unless they have own settings.
Several tables at one level
The screenshot below demonstrates how you can have several grid tables at one level:
See Several tables at a level topic for details.
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