Grid Editor - Insert or Edit mode?

[Reid]

I have the following in a Kendo UI MVC Core Grid to declare that a popup shows when adding or inserting a record:

.Editable(editable => editable.Mode(GridEditMode.PopUp).TemplateName("Template").Window(x => x.Width(500).Height(500)))

That works to bring up the editor template popup which is stored in the Shared/EditorTemplates folder.  And validation is working as well as the Insert or Update methods on the controller are working. 
Yet the when I click the +ADD NEW RECORD button on the Toolbar when the dialog shows it always shows as an update   action. The title bar displays "Edit" and the button displays "Update".  This is happening in another grid as well.  Shouldn't it display "Insert" and "Save" or "Insert" and "Add" when the +ADD NEW RECORD button on the Toolbar is clicked?  Why always "Edit"?

I also need to know if it is in Insert or Edit mode at run-time because I am doing a lookup using Ajax when the user enters a value to check for duplicates on that particular field.

Please advise.

[Viktor Tachev]

Hi Reid,

In order to change the title of the popup window and the text for the buttons I would suggest handling the edit event. In the event handler get reference of the popup window and change the title for it. In the same event you can change the text of the update/create button.

The code snippets below show the relevant code. 

Handle the edit event:

.Events(e=>e.Edit("onEdit"))

JavaScript handler:

function onEdit(e) {
    if (e.model.isNew()) {
        e.container.kendoWindow("title", "Create");
        e.container.find(".k-grid-update").contents()[1].textContent = "Create";
    }
}

Give the approach a try and let me know how it works for you.


Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Progress Telerik

[Sven]

There is no Edit event any more. Only Open exists so far.

 

Sorry, I was wrong. The Edit event on the Grid component still exists.

 

[Reid]

Thank you Viktor, that works.