Grouping Footer Templates?

[Bryan Kowalchuk]

I have a radGrid that contains some basic user entry that is grouped. It does exactly what I want. I also require some data entry fields that the user would use to add summary information for the group. The grouping footer is the perfect place to put these controls but my question how can I add data bound controls to grouping footer?

[Pavlina]

Hi Bryan,

You can access the GridFooterItem in ItemCreated event and add the control to the cell as shown below.
 C#:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemCreated(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridFooterItem)
    {
        GridFooterItem footerItem = (GridFooterItem)e.Item;
        //add the desired control here
    }

Give it a try and see if it works for you.

Best wishes,
Pavlina
the Telerik team

[Bryan Kowalchuk]

Worked great once I changed GridFooterItem to GridGroupFooterItem, thanks!

Next question:

I need to do some data binding. I have been using the Grid_ItemDataBound event to find the control (RadTextbox) that was added to the footer. My question is, how can I find out the group that the control is currently in, preferably the Key ID of the group so that I can use the key value to retrieve the data and set the text for this text box?

[Pavlina]

Hello Bryan,

You can reference the footer item of the control and use the column UniqueName property to identify the cell of interest:

GridFooterItem footerItem = RadGrid1.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Footer)[0] as GridFooterItem;

Refer to this help article for more information:
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/introduction.html

Sincerely yours,
Pavlina
the Telerik team