EditFormTemplate - changing default value in textbox

[Ian Coetzer]

Hi

I want to know how I can change the 'default' text that appears in a textbox that I have placed in the EditFormTemplate section of my radGrid from "Telerik.Web.UI.GridInsertionObject" to something else like "(please enter a value)"

This is what I have tried so far ...
But it still populates the text of the textbox to Telerik.Web.UI.GridInsertionObject when I want to insert a new record.

        <EditFormSettings>
            <FormTemplate>
                <asp:TextBox ID="txtUserName" runat="server" Text="(enter a user name)"></asp:TextBox>
            </FormTemplate>
            <PopUpSettings ScrollBars="None" />
        </EditFormSettings>

[Princy]

Hello Ian,

Check out the following code to set values for column editors.

 protected void RadGrid1_ItemCommand(object  source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridCommandEventArgs e)
 {
   if (e.CommandName == RadGrid.InitInsertCommandName)
    {
     e.Canceled = true;

      System.Collections.Specialized.ListDictionary newnewValues = new System.Collections.Specialized.ListDictionary();
      newValues["ContactName"] = "default contact name";
      newValues["CompanyName"] = " default company name";
      newValues["Country"] = "country name";
      newValues["Bool"] = false;

      e.Item.OwnerTableView.InsertItem(newValues);
    }
 }

For more information on how to set predefined values for ColumnEditors you can go through the following help document.
Inserting values in-place and EditForms

Princy.

[Eric Schoenholzer]

Hi, desn't work for me.

For ex.:

  <telerik:GridDropDownColumn DataField="SpesenVerrechnung" DataType="System.Int32"
HeaderText="Verrechnung" DataSourceID="sqlSpesenVerrechnung" ListValueField="Id" 
ListTextField="SpesenVerrechnung" SortExpression="SpesenVerrechnung" UniqueName="SpesenVerrechnung">
<ItemStyle Wrap="False" />
</telerik:GridDropDownColumn>

  <telerik:GridDropDownColumn DataField="TaetigkeitID" DataType="System.Int32" HeaderText="Tätigkeit"
DataSourceID="sqlTaetigkeit" ListValueField="ID" ListTextField="TaetigkeitText"
SortExpression="TaetigkeitText" UniqueName="TaetigkeitID">
</telerik:GridDropDownColumn>

and with

newValues["SpesenVerrechnung"] = "Intern"

newValues["TaetigkeitID"] = "Support"

Any idea why?

Thanks

Eric