GridView Filter

[Amit Patel]

GridView Filter

I would like to display customize name when binding enum property to a column. Right now it would display the Enum Name e.g. “TimeUnit’  as opposed to “Time Unit” with space.  Is there a way to achieve this without too much customization to grid filter?

 Lets say i have Enum and Class like listed below that i would use for binding to GridView, and would expect filter to show "Time Unit" & Work Unit.

public enum Unit

                {

                                [Display("Time Unit")]

                                TimeUnit,

                                [Display("Time Unit")]

                                WorkUnit

                }

 

Public class MyClass

{

                Public Unit {get; set;}

}

[Milan]

Hi Amit Patel,

You could do this by defining a custom attribute and a converter which will read the custom attribute and show the predefined display text.

I have attached a sample project which demonstrates this approach. 

All the best,
Milan
the Telerik team

[Amit Patel]

Milan,

Thanks for the quick response! The solution you provided works great when binding to GridViewDataColumn; however, it does not work when binding to GridViewComboBoxColumn using a converter. The Drop down box show a blank value instead of showing the predefined values.  Please let me know if you are able to show the values in drop down box.

Thanks,
Amit

[Milan]

Hi Amit Patel,

Using this with combo columns is a bit more tricky - you should utilize the ItemTemplate property of the combo column:

<telerik:GridViewComboBoxColumn DataMemberBinding="{Binding UnitType}">
    <telerik:GridViewComboBoxColumn.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource enumConverter}}"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </telerik:GridViewComboBoxColumn.ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridViewComboBoxColumn>

Sincerely yours,
Milan
the Telerik team