Hierachical GridView from objects.

[Sergio]

Hi!

I'm trying to to a master-detail view inside a gridview from my own objects but can't get it working ...
trying a details into master object approach only the first item has children , so tryed a object list with parent items and another object list with children items and made a relation inside gridview object but then none of the items have children in the grid ...

Can you help me please?

I've found in this forum about hierachical items from objects not working on jan'07 but the answer from telerik is that it will be solved in q2 release and i'm trying the q3 release , it's possible it's not implemented yet?

thanks

[Jack]

Hi Sergio,

Thank you for contacting us.

Yes, binding to a hierarchy consisting of custom business objects is available in the latest release of RadControls for WinForms. In order to build a hierarchy you just need to add a template and a relation.

Refer to the code snippet below:

public class Client
{
    int id;
    string name;

    public int ID
    {
        get { return id; }
        set { id = value; }
    }

    public string Name
    {
        get { return name; }
        set { name = value; }
    }

    public Client(int id, string name)
    {
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
    }
}

public class Order
{
    int id;
    int clientid;
    int quantity;

    public int ID
    {
        get { return id; }
        set { id = value; }
    }

    public int ClientID
    {
        get { return clientid; }
        set { clientid = value; }
    }

    public int Quantity
    {
        get { return quantity; }
        set { quantity = value; }
    }

    public Order(int id, int clientid, int quantity)
    {
        this.id = id;
        this.clientid = clientid;
        this.quantity = quantity;
    }
}


BindingList<Client> clients = new BindingList<Client>();
clients.Add(new Client(1, "John Smith"));
clients.Add(new Client(2, "Peter Jackson"));
clients.Add(new Client(3, "Samuel Dell"));

BindingList<Order> orders = new BindingList<Order>();
orders.Add(new Order(1, 1, 2));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 1, 1));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 2, 10));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 3, 43));

this.radGridView1.AutoGenerateHierarchyFromDataSet = false;
this.radGridView1.DataSource = clients;

GridViewTemplate ordersTemplate = new GridViewTemplate(this.radGridView1);
ordersTemplate.DataSource = orders;
this.radGridView1.MasterGridViewTemplate.ChildGridViewTemplates.Add(ordersTemplate);

GridViewRelation relation = new GridViewRelation(this.radGridView1.MasterGridViewTemplate);
relation.RelationName = "Clients Orders";
relation.ParentColumnNames.Add("ID");
relation.ChildColumnNames.Add("ClientID");
relation.ChildTemplate = ordersTemplate;
this.radGridView1.Relations.Add(relation);

I hope this helps. Let me know, if you have other questions.

Kind regards,
Jack
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[Jonathan Rajotte]

Hi, I've cut & pasted your sample and it doesn't work... nothing shows up in the grid.

Is something missing?

Thanks

[Jack]

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Because of changes in RadGridView's data layer the binding behavior has been changed. In order to address the issue, you should first add the relations and then set the DataSource.

Refer to the following sample:

BindingList<Client> clients = new BindingList<Client>();
clients.Add(new Client(1, "John Smith"));
clients.Add(new Client(2, "Peter Jackson"));
clients.Add(new Client(3, "Samuel Dell"));

BindingList<Order> orders = new BindingList<Order>();
orders.Add(new Order(1, 1, 2));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 1, 1));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 2, 10));
orders.Add(new Order(1, 3, 43));

this.radGridView1.AutoGenerateHierarchyFromDataSet = false;

GridViewTemplate ordersTemplate = new GridViewTemplate(this.radGridView1);
ordersTemplate.DataSource = orders;
this.radGridView1.MasterGridViewTemplate.ChildGridViewTemplates.Add(ordersTemplate);

GridViewRelation relation = new GridViewRelation(this.radGridView1.MasterGridViewTemplate);
relation.RelationName = "Clients Orders";
relation.ParentColumnNames.Add("ID");
relation.ChildColumnNames.Add("ClientID");
relation.ChildTemplate = ordersTemplate;
this.radGridView1.Relations.Add(relation);

this.radGridView1.DataSource = clients;

I hope this helps. Do not hesitate to write me, if you have other questions

All the best,
Jack
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