Formatting the Child Cells of a Hierarchical RadGridView

[Jeremy Murtishaw]

Hello,

I'm trying to format the Child Cells of a Hierarchical GridView via the CellFormatting event.

Here's the code I'm trying to use:

        private void grdRecord_CellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.CellElement is GridDetailViewCellElement)
            {
                if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == (int)RecordScorpion.Column.Network)
                {
                    if (e.CellElement.Text.ToString().Contains("-"))
                    {
                        grdRecord.Rows[e.CellElement.RowIndex].Cells[(int)Record.Column.Value].CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
                    }
                    else if (e.CellElement.Text.ToString() != string.Empty)
                    {
                        grdRecord.Rows[e.CellElement.RowIndex].Cells[(int)Record.Column.Value].CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Purple;
                    }
                }
                else if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == (int)RecordScorpion.Column.Item)
                {
                    e.CellElement.Text = "";
                }
            }

However, I'm finding that while the cellelement type sometimes is GridDetailViewCellElement, the columnindex is typically negative. In addition, I'm finding that the rowindex is out of range as well. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Jeremy

[Jack]

Hello Jeremy,

GridDetailViewCellElement is used to hold the child grid element. However, it isn't a data cell and it doesn't contain any data. Only data cells have valid column and row indexes. You should check whether the cell is a GridDataCellElement. To be sure that this is a cell from a child view, check its ViewTemplate property. Here is the modified code:

private void grdRecord_CellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CellElement is GridDataCellElement
        && e.CellElement.ViewTemplate == this.radGridView1.MasterGridViewTemplate.ChildGridViewTemplates[0])
    {
        if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == Record.Column.Value)
        {
            string scorpionValue = e.CellElement.RowInfo.Cells[(int)RecordScorpion.Column.Network].Value.ToString();
            if (scorpionValue.Contains("-"))
            {
                e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Blue;
            }
            else if (scorpionValue != string.Empty)
            {
                e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Purple;
            }
            else
            {
                e.CellElement.ForeColor = Color.Black;
            }
        }
        else if (e.CellElement.ColumnIndex == (int)RecordScorpion.Column.Item)
        {
            e.CellElement.Text = "";
        }
    }
}

I hope this helps. If you have any additional questions, feel free to write us.

Regards,
Jack
the Telerik team

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