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;}

}

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

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

Hi Amit Patel,

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

Sincerely yours,
Milan
the Telerik team