Grouping + Conditional Formatting + Dynamic Control

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  1. A0BFD109-4C96-4F67-BAA3-222033E61C14
    A0BFD109-4C96-4F67-BAA3-222033E61C14 avatar
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    Posted 10 Sep 2013 Link to this post

    Requirements

    RadControls version 2013.2.717.40
    .NET version 4.0
    Visual Studio version 2010
    programming language C#
    browser support

    all browsers supported by RadControls( Tested in IE 10 & firefox 23.0.1 )


    PROJECT DESCRIPTION
    Demonstrates how one can customize the rad-grid and can programmatically, add dynamic controls such as link button, show/hide columns & headers along with grouping.
    The dynamically added link-button (Server Control) has added attributes which are accessible in Client Side as well as Server Side event handlers ( Example includes how this can be achieved on server side)

    if needed one may also assign id as following to be able to access in client side ( using selector etc. )

    lb.ID = "lb" + <Product_Name> + "_xyz";


    Manipulating RadGrid on server side


    There are some real–life requirements when we need to hide some columns and/or conditionally form ‘em or have to add links to the Gridview. This article describes how we can:

    1)     Hide columns dynamically

    2)     Add dynamic controls (linkbuton etc) some provision for conditional formatting with client-side scripting and can make the things really simple and also how can we hide columns from the grid that we need in the application; (E.g. the PK or FK etc.)

     

    A bit custom, not very popular but interesting scenario that may add aesthetics to your web-application.


    Hiding Columns

    A column can be hidden from Gridview in a scenario where we need to query a particular column from the database, but not needed to be displayed in the grid itself.

    We can leverage the “OnItemDataBound” event and can change properties after casting e.Item to GridDataItem

    protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
    {
        GridDataItem thisGridDatatem = e.Item as GridDataItem;
        if (thisGridDatatem["column_name"] != null)
                    thisGridDatatem["id"].Visible = false;
    }

    Of course in your application you may want to do this conditionally (role based and permission/access-rights bases scenarios). Checking a column against null is a good practice. Sure, we can take it to the next level in the case when we just need to hide a column we may do something like following:


    protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item is GridDataItem && thisGridDatatem != null)
        {
                if (thisGridDatatem["target_column"] != null)
                {
                    thisGridDatatem["id"].Controls.Clear();
                    LinkButton lb = new LinkButton();
                    lb.Text = ((System.Data.DataRowView)(e.Item.DataItem)).Row[3].ToString();
                   // Attributes
                    lb.Attributes.Add(
                     "attrib1",
                    ((System.Data.DataRowView)(e.Item.DataItem)).Row[2].ToString()
                    ); 
                    lb.Attributes.Add(
                     "attrib2",
                     ((System.Data.DataRowView)(e.Item.DataItem)).Row[4].ToString()
                    );
                    lb.Attributes.Add(
                     "attrib3",
                     ((System.Data.DataRowView)(e.Item.DataItem)).Row[5].ToString()
                    );
                    lb.Command += new CommandEventHandler(lb_Command);
                    lb.ID = "someConvenientName" + e.Item.RowIndex.ToString();
                    TableCell c1 = new TableCell();
                    c1.Controls.Add(lb);
                    e.Item.Cells.RemoveAt(1);
                    e.Item.Cells.AddAt(1, c1);
                }
        }
    }
    void lb_Command(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
    {
        LinkButton lb = (LinkButton)sender;
        string
            casenum = lb.Text
            , attrib1 = (lb.Attributes["attrib1"] ?? "").ToString()
            , attrib2 = (lb.Attributes["attrib2"] ?? "").ToString()
            , attrib3 = (lb.Attributes["attrib3"] ?? "").ToString();
    }

    Now if you go back to your browser and look at the rendered code you may find something as shown in the screen shot (located in atteched zip archive), attributes are also available there. Now you may refer to this control by using selectors using javascript or javascript library like jQuery !




    Attached : Project Archive with screen snippet
  2. 272EA702-B83F-49DA-9608-0FBC5A6ECAEB
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    Posted 12 Sep 2013 Link to this post

    Hi Aarsh,

    The provided project has some missing resources and build errors appear on  our end. Could you please strip it to isolated runnable version, without any external technologies, so that we could inspect it locally and approve the Code Library.
    After the approval process passes we could award you with Telerik points for your great contribution to our resources.

    Regards,
    Maria Ilieva
    Telerik
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    Posted 23 Oct 2013 Link to this post

    Hello Aarash,

    First accept my apologize for the delay on this response. i was out of office for a while so that I could not revise the Code Library earlier. Could I kindly ask you to re post the code library with the update project in the current code library ticket so that we could directly approve it from our system?
    Also you will find your Telerik point updated as a token of gratitude for providing this valuable resource.

    Regards,
    Maria Ilieva
    Telerik
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  4. A0BFD109-4C96-4F67-BAA3-222033E61C14
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    Posted 23 Oct 2013 Link to this post

    Mariya, I have updated the description with code snippets. Thanks !

    -Aarsh
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