[Solved] FormTemplate DropDownList And ItemCommand

[Rhesa-Moile]

Hello,

I have a radgrid with a detailedtable in it. Also I have a Custom FormTemplate.

When I press the 'add new record' button, I would like the form to fill with the apropriate info and have the dropdownlists on the value that was saved in the database. For some reason I can not use 'selectedvalue = <% ... %>' I get the error that it can not be set declarativily.

So I added a onItemCommand function (see below). This works fine for the dropdownlists, but now the textboxex in the custom form are empty. Is there any other way to select an item in the dropdownlists, or is it possible to get the values for the textboxex from the OwnerTableView or something?

I hope someone can help me, couse it drives me insane!!

        protected void grdAccounts_ItemCommand(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridCommandEventArgs e) {
            if (e.CommandName == RadGrid.EditCommandName) {
                string sAccountType = grdAccounts.MasterTableView.DataKeyValues[e.Item.ItemIndex]["AccountType"].ToString();
                e.Canceled = true;
                e.Item.OwnerTableView.InsertItem();

                GridEditableItem insertedItem = e.Item.OwnerTableView.GetInsertItem();
                ((DropDownList)(insertedItem.FindControl("drpAccountType"))).SelectedValue = sAccountType;
            }
        }

[Shinu]

Hello Rhesa,

You can try accessing the controls in Item_DataBound instead of ItemCommand. Try out the following code snippet.

[CS]

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.OwnerTableView.Name == "TableName")
    {
        if (e.Item.OwnerTableView.IsItemInserted && e.Item is GridEditFormInsertItem)
        {
            GridEditFormInsertItem item = (GridEditFormInsertItem)e.Item;
            DropDownList dropdown = (DropDownList)item.FindControl("Dropdown"); //Get the dropdownlist
            dropdown.SelectedValue = "Text2";
        }
    }
}

Thanks,
Shinu.

[Rhesa-Moile]

I am sorry, but this dont seem to work for me. e.Item.OwnerTableView.Name is allways empty and whats more... e.Item.OwnerTableView.IsItemInserted is never true. I would like to select the right dropdownitem in the formtemplate when the user starts editing the record.

Any more suggestions?

Tnx
Rhesa

[Shinu]

Hi,

I guess you have not set the Name property for the Detail table. Try setting it in the aspx as shown below.

ASPX:

 <DetailTables>
    <telerik:GridTableView runat="server"  Caption="Detail"   Name="TableName"   >

Thanks
Shinu