Access Row of Clientside bound grid on serverside

[Prathibarani]

Hi,

We are binding RadGrid on Client using RadClientDataSource. The grid has template columns with links. When link is clicked, we want itemcommand event to get fired on server side. Here we want to access row data and manipulate data. Since it is clientbound, we are not able to access row data. What is the best way to take care of it so that entire row data is available to us on server side.

We used to bind the grid on server side. It was very slow. So, we switched to clientside binding which is very fast. But lot of logic happens on server side.

I can use hidden fields and on client get values and use them. We are trying to avoid it because we use this grid on many pages and trying to come up with global solution.

[Eyup]

Hi Prathibarani,

When the grid is bound on client-side, it is not possible to access this data on server-side because the data is present on the client. However, you can fire a custom command using the fireCommand method and pass a string argument holding the row data, e.g. in JSON format:
https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/grid/client-side-programming/gridtableview-object/methods/firecommand

You can check how to stringify JSON and pass it on server-side, then extract it on the code-behind in the RadGridGetAllSelectedItemsImproved.zip sample provided here:
https://www.telerik.com/support/code-library/get-selected-items-through-all-pages#1eTU8nr-GUG8zfGgOGbIcA

I hope this will prove helpful.

Regards,
Eyup
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