GroupPanel Header values

[Dasha]

Dear Support,

I have grouping enabled server-side. In the attached image you see that my grid is grouped by 2 columns: Status and Priority.  I don't want the "Status" label to be visible in my group header, but the problem is that if I set 
gridGroupByField.HeaderText = " ";

then the group panel header shows up as empty.  All my groups are dynamically defined, so I don't know ahead of time which will want the column name to show up and which won't.  Is there a way for me to set the GroupPanel header values?

[Mira]

Hello Dasha,

Please use the following code to set the field alias when grouping:

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Status" HeaderText="Status" SortExpression="Status"
    UniqueName="Status" GroupByExpression="Status as [ ] Group By Status">
</telerik:GridBoundColumn>

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Mira
the Telerik team

[Dasha]

I'm setting up my columns programmatically and for some reason this method is not creating the groupings.  Also, I tried to set the GridGroupByEsxpression.Expression property, but the result is the same, the column name shows up as " " in both places.

[Mira]

Hello Dasha,

Please make sure that you create the grid according to the Programmatic Creation help topic.
In order to implement the desired functionality, I recommend that you set the GroupByExpression property of the corresponding column when creating it:

GridBoundColumn boundColumn;
boundColumn = new GridBoundColumn();
boundColumn.HeaderText = "Status";
boundColumn.GroupByExpression = "Status as st Group By Status";

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mira
the Telerik team

[Dasha]

I will keep trying to get this approach to work, I must be doing something wrong.  Assuming I do get the grouping to work this way, and I set the alias to be empty ([ ]), will the ":" header value separator still show up? Do I have any control over the format?  Suppose I wish to add an item count in the form "In Progress (7)", where "In progress" in the group value, and 7 is the number of grouped items.  I'm looking here: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/radgrid-telerik.webcontrols.gridgroupbyexpression-expression.html, and I can see that I can add something like "count(Country) Items", which will add a count like "Items: 7", but I want to show it like (7), how would I do that?