DataEditFormatString does not seem to work

[Brandon]

Hi Guys

I have a RadGridView with only one editable column
The editable column is a GridViewDecimalColumn.  I have set the FormatString property to be "{0:P}" and it successfully appears as a Percentage.  However when I set the DataEditFormatString to be"{0:P}", it does not appear as a Percentage when editing.

How is the DataEditFormatString meant to work as I cannot find much information about what it is meant to do or how to use it?

Thanks

Bran

[Stefan]

Hi Brandon,

Thank you for writing.

When a cell in a GridViewDecimalColumn is in edit mode it displays a GridSpinEditor. Unfortunately, the GridSpinEditor, just like the standard numeric controls, does not allow formatting text.

I hope that you find this information helpful. Let me know if I can assist you further.

All the best,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[ShareDocs]

Hi,
is there anything new about this?
It Seems that the property is obsolete... what is the replacement?

isn't there any workaround?

[Stefan]

Hello Lior,

Thank you for writing.

The property comes from GridViewDataColumn (the base type) and should not be used. It was marked as obsolete and will be removed from the code base in future.

As I mentioned, this type of editor does not support string formatting. If you want you can use a text column or mask column instead.
 
Regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team