How to clear the EditForm (Insert)

[Robert]

I am have a RadGrid and use EditForms with a template.  I allow inserts and edits and I am having a problem with clearning the EditForm when a user clicks to edit a row.  When I click on the Add New link it shows an empty template and that is perfect but If I then choose to then click Edit on an existing row it creates another edit form in edit mode.  So now I have 2 edit forms 1 for a new record and 1 an edit to a record.  Since I have validation on my edit forms submitting either form causes validation to fire on both. 

I know that I can clear edit items when I click the add new link such as:

Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCommand(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridCommandEventArgs) Handles RadGrid1.ItemCommand
  Select Case e.CommandName
    Case RadGrid.InitInsertCommandName
      ' cancel any previous edits
      RadGrid1.MasterTableView.ClearEditItems()
    Case RadGrid.EditCommandName
  End Select
End Sub

This works fine clearing out edits but not inserts.  How can I clear the insert items when I choose to edit a row in the grid since there seems to be no .ClearInsertItems() method?

[Elliott]

Robert - what I think you are trying to do is to issue a Cancel to the Edit or the Insert, right?
I would approach your need that way - I have done a CancelAll in a script

[Robert]

Well sort of... I am trying to make sure the user is only performing 1 insert or 1 edit at any given time.  I can easily cancel edits but I cannot cancel the inserts.

[Elliott]

now I am confused - when I edit one row the row already open for edit closes
how can you have more than one row open for edit at any one time?

[Robert]

This prevents that from happening.
Remove this and you can open every row for edit: RadGrid1.MasterTableView.ClearEditItems()

Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCommand(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridCommandEventArgs) Handles RadGrid1.ItemCommand
  Select Case e.CommandName
    Case RadGrid.InitInsertCommandName
      ' cancel any previous edits
      RadGrid1.MasterTableView.ClearEditItems()
    Case RadGrid.EditCommandName
  End Select
End Sub

The point is that I do not want more than 1 row open for editting / adding at any time. This is because I use validation.  If I have more than 1 row open the validation fires for all of the rows being added/editted.

[Elliott]

I can't help you any more
could someone i.e. MVP or Telerik Admin jump in and straighten things  out here?

[Robert]

As a work around I can cancel the edit on the Item_Command event handler:

Not the behavior I want but so far it will have to kludge what should be a obvious behavior. 

 

If RadGrid1.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted Then

 

    e.Canceled =

True

 

 

End If

Adding this to the grid didn't prevent an add and an edit from occurring at the same time either:

 

  AllowMultiRowEdit="false"
  AllowMultiRowSelection="false"

[Antonio Stoilkov]

Hello Robert,

You could achieve your scenario by following the steps described below:

• Subscribe to RadGrid ItemCommand event
• Use the code provided below. Note that the difference is the a condition for EditCommandName which closes the insert item by setting the IsItemInserted to false

Protected Sub RadGrid1_ItemCommand(sender As Object, e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridCommandEventArgs)
    If e.CommandName = RadGrid.EditCommandName Then
        Me.RadGrid1.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted = False
    ElseIf e.CommandName = RadGrid.InitInsertCommandName Then
        Me.RadGrid1.MasterTableView.ClearEditItems()
    End If
End Sub

Regards,
Antonio Stoilkov
the Telerik team

[Robert]

Thanks Antonio... exactly what I needed.

I would think the control should behave this way by design.