How to initiate a row edit from code behind?

[Ron Michael Zettlemoyer]

I am building a row button that'll make a duplicate of the row the user clicked.  I want it to then let the user edit the row.  In my particular case I am using the built in popup form to edit the row.

So I have a GridButtonColumn, I catch it in the OnItemCommand event - but how do I initiate the edit on the new row?  Or, bring up the New Row form, loaded with the data from the row I'm copying?

[Shinu]

Hello,

You can specify GridButtonColumn with CommandName "Edit". This will show the row in edit mode. The following code might help you.

ASPX:

<Columns>
 <telerik:GridButtonColumn CommandName="Edit" Text="Edit" UniqueName="Edit" HeaderText="Edit">
 </telerik:GridButtonColumn>
</Columns>

-Shinu

[Ron Michael Zettlemoyer]

Here is what I wound up doing, which I think is rather slick:

1- I added a GridButtonColumn with the CommandName of InitInsert and a CommandArgument of Copy.

2- On the server side, I intercept OnItemCommand and if the CommandName is Insert and the CommandArgument is Copy, I set the defaults of each field to be the values present in the current record.  If it's not I set all the defaults to blank.

Because InitInsert is the build-in command to start a new record, the grid then goes ahead on its own an initiates a new record.  In my case that brings up the pop-up form but it'll do an in-line edit if you set it that way.

If the user hit Duplicate by mistake, they can just cancel the insert and no new record is created.