How do remove a column from the autogenerated edit form

[Kathy]

This is a 2 part question, but they should be pretty quick to answer:
1) I have a column in the grid that I have hidden and I don't want that column to show up in the autogenerated edit form.  I guess I need to catch some event to get that removed.
2) If I don't have this column visible, I still need to set the columns data so that I can do an insert ( the column is a foreign key ).  So I am just hardcoding the foreign key here.  How would I go about doing that so that the insert will work?
Thanks.

[Cori]

Hello Kathy,

1) To hide a column from showing in the edit form you need to set ReadOnly="true" on the column.
2) If you're hard-coding it I don't an issue with the form being in insert or edit mode. Another approach would be to set the DefaultInsertValue on the column you want to default the value for.

Your column could look something like this:

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ForeignKey" ReadOnly="true" DefaultInsertValue="2">
</telerik:GridBoundColumn>

I hope that helps.

[Kathy]

One last question: if I wanted to set the foreign key to a value from a session variable, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks for all the answers.  The readonly column thing worked great. 

[Cori]

Hello Kathy,

I'm assuming you're using some kind of DataSource control (i.e. SqlDataSource, LinqDataSource, etc...). If so, you can just add an insert parameter to your data source of type SessionParameter. Like so:

<   InsertParameters>        <asp:SessionParameter Name="ColumnName" SessionField="SessionName" />     </InsertParameters>

In the SessionField you put the session key that you're using to get that value.

I hope that helps.