Exporting GridCheckBoxColumn to PDF

[Marcus]

Hello all,

I have a grid with two checkboxcolumns that I am trying to export to PDF. The two columns are empty in the export, all other columns are populated. I have set ExportOnlyData="false", but that did not make any difference.

I should probably add that this is a grouped grid - not sure if that makes any difference.

Thx in advance for help and/or pointers!
M.

[Eyup]

Hello Marcus,

 

You can use the following approach to achieve this requirement:

 <telerik:GridCheckBoxColumn ... DataField="Active">

<MasterTableView ... DataKeyNames="OrderID,Active">

    protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (RadGrid1.IsExporting)
        {
            foreach (GridDataItem item in RadGrid1.Items)
            {
                foreach (GridCheckBoxColumn col in RadGrid1.MasterTableView
                    .RenderColumns.OfType<GridCheckBoxColumn>())
                {
                    TableCell cell = item[col.UniqueName];
                    cell.Text = item.GetDataKeyValue(col.DataField).ToString();
                }
            }
        }

I hope this will prove helpful.

 

Regards,
Eyup
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[Marcus]

Hi Eyup,

thx for the reply.

This puts the words "true" and "false" into the columns, correct? So, I gather there is no way to render the checkboxes on the pdf export ?

Thx again - M.

[Eyup]

Hello Marcus,

 

Yes, this is correct. Exporting checkboxes is not supported with RadGrid.

Telerik also provides the Document Processing libraries which you can check:
https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/pdfprocessing/overview/defaultcs.aspx

And it has many capabilities, even exporting and importing active fields:
https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-core/pdfprocessing/read-write-form-fields

But building the resulting PDF file is a custom process and is beyond our support scope.

 

Regards,
Eyup
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