Custom Template Help Needed

[Murray]

Ok this is a strange one and I've tried all I can, but need some help.

I need a GridView which is:

• IsReadOnly="True"
• ShowInsertRow=True"
• CanUserInsertRows="True"
• CanUserDeleteRows="True"

I have  ReadOnly GridView but I want the InsertRow button to visible. We have this button wired up to open a dialog from which we make a selection and add that selection to the GridView. We can do all this with a IsReadOnly="False" grid but we need to block the user from editing the values in this grid.

I tried setting the "PART_GridViewVirtualizingPanel" in the template to IsHitTestVisible="False" but unfortunately we have another requirement... the first Column in the grid is Templated with a RadButton, who's command is to remove the Row! If I set the "PART_GridViewVirtualizingPanel" to be IsHitTestVisible="False", then the templated RadButton in this column is also IsHitTestVisible="False".

I hope I'm making some form of sense so far?

Question?
Is there any way to modify the template for a GridView to make the content ReadOnly and yet have the InsertRow area visible and clickable?

[Dimitrina]

Hello,

 You say that you have the button wired up to open a dialogue. In that case you can set the IsReadOnly property for all of the columns, not for the GridView.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Didie
the Telerik team

[Murray]

Yes I considered that, however we auto generate the rest of the columns.

[Dimitrina]

Hello,

You can handle the AutoGeneratingColumn event of the grid and change the properties for the generated column. 

Regards,
Didie
the Telerik team

[Murray]

Thank you Didie

I can have our devs add this as a class so we can use it globally.