[Solved] Hirearchy Abilities?

[EricB]

Greetings,

  I am researching the Telerik MVC controls, specifically the Grid control.  I've been trying to find a good grid control and so far everything else I've found is difficult to use, requires strange Javascript (JSON) formats or other ways to feed the controls data.  The thing I REALLY like about the Telerik grid thus far is the ability to just give it a model and it renders the data without much work.

The other candidate is jqGrid, it has a very specific feature I an in need of and am not seeing support in the Telerik grid for this capability and was wondering if you guys could help.

What I am looking for is functionality similar the grouping, but not quite.  I need to add an image in a custom collum that when clicked causes a row beneath the grid to populate it with additional data.  In order to see what I am talking about please visit this link: http://www.trirand.net/aspnetmvc/grid/hierarchytwolevels

That is the jqGrid functionality I'm specifically after and have high hopes that the Telerik grid supports this?

Any assistance you could offer would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Eric

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello EricB,

The current official release does not support hierarchy (or master / detail as we call it). The good news is that the upcoming version will support that. To back this statement up I am attaching two screenshots showing the hierarchy in action. A beta version is expected in a few days!

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[EricB]

Greeting Atanas,

  This is fantastic news and the screen shots look GREAT!  Thank you very much for replying and I am anxiously awaiting the beta! :)  Just thought of a question...  Will we have the ability to control what goes in the "detail" or "hireachy" panel that is displayed?  If I wanted to display just plain content rather than another gird, would this be possible?  Thanks!

Thank you again and have a great day!
-Eric

[EricB]

You may have missed this as I later updated the existing reply, so I figured I'd add a new reply:

Just thought of a question...  Will we have the ability to control what goes in the "detail" or "hierarchy" panel that is displayed? 
If I wanted to display just plain content rather than another gird, would this be possible?  Thanks!

Thanks,
Eric

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi EricB,

Yes this is possible and actually this is how you realize hierarchy - by defining a grid in the detail template.
The second section shows exactly that - a tabstrip is embedded in the detail template of the grid.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[EricB]

Thank you!  I am very anxious to get my hands on the new release! :)

-Eric