Diffrent ascx in the EditForm for Grid

[Henrik Tegman]

Hello,

I have a RadGrid and I have two diffrent ascx files.
I want to dynamicly load one or the other when the user press the Editbutton is this possible?

I understand that I can set a ascx to load with the

EditFormSettings-UserControlName

But that will set only one ascx for my whole grid. When the user press the Editbutton I have to check that row/item and if a specific Colum has value "1" then I want to show one ascx if it has something else I want to show the other. I tried to catch the ItemDataBound event and change the

RadGrid1.MasterTableView.EditFormSettings.UserControlName

To something else but I guess that is to late and that the usercontrol has already been loaded at this point.
Can I in some way set every row/item to have a diffrent usercontrol open when edit is pressed, or is there another event that I can catch BEFORE the control gets loaded?

Thanks in advance.

[Shinu]

Hello Henrik,


Use ItemCommand to set the UserControlName from code behind. Have a look at the code snippet shown below.

Code:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemCommand(object sender, GridCommandEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CommandName == RadGrid.EditCommandName)
    {
        if ((e.Item as GridDataItem)["ShipVia"].Text == "London")
        {
            e.Item.OwnerTableView.EditFormSettings.UserControlName = "WebUserControl1.ascx";
        }
        else
        {
            e.Item.OwnerTableView.EditFormSettings.UserControlName = "WebUserControl2.ascx";
        }
    }
}

-Shinu.

[Henrik Tegman]

Hello,

That helped me a lot!

But I have a new problem, if I open the editform it will stay open even if I do a postback to the page. I have a simple asp:button that when pressed will fill the grid with new data but the editform is still open when I do this, I don't want it to behave this way and I can also get error since the diffrent ascx have diffrent controls in themself and depending on what I load the grid with I need diffrent ascx.

So the ascxes are working fine now, but the editform stays open and I don't want that.

I have tried to turn off the AllowAutomaticXXXX but that doesn't help.

What can I do to fix this?

Thanks in advance

[Iana Tsolova]

Hello Henrik,

Try clearing the grid edit indexes before rebinding the grid:

RadGrid1.EditIndexes.Clear();
RadGrid1.Rebind();

Greetings,
Iana
the Telerik team