[Solved] GridGroupByField With HyperLink?

[David Frost]

I have a RadGrid based from Telerik.Web.UI.  One of my columns "AccountName" is replicated for each record so to save space I used this code to group by the "AccountName"

<GroupByExpressions>
    <telerik:GridGroupByExpression>
        <SelectFields>
            <telerik:GridGroupByField FieldAlias="AccountName" FieldName="AccountName" HeaderText="Account">
            </telerik:GridGroupByField>
        </SelectFields>
        <GroupByFields>
            <telerik:GridGroupByField FieldName="AccountName" FieldAlias="AccountName" HeaderText="Account">
            </telerik:GridGroupByField>
        </GroupByFields>
    </telerik:GridGroupByExpression>
</GroupByExpressions>

Which works fine however the users want to drill down on the "AccountName" field to a details page.  Is there a way to add a "NavigateURL" or hyperlink to this group by expression?

If not my work around is to create a GridHyperLinkColumn with static text "View Detail" to allow the user to go to the details page.  Not as clean and my horizontal space on the page is very limited.

Thanks! 

[Sebastian]

Hi David,

Although the functionality you request is not supported out-of-the-box by our web grid, you may consider modifying the GridGroupHeaderItem text by wrapping the actual text in an anchor tag to redirect the user to another location (based on the text value in the group header).

How to customize the group headers content in RadGrid you can see from the following article in the documentation:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdcustomizegridgroupheaderitem.html

I hope this is feasible solution for your case.

Best regards,
Stephen
the Telerik team

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