Modify Grid Header in code behind

[Philip Senechal]

I have a grid which I'm populating via pivot table in the code behind...therefore the columns are set to auto-generate.

I'd like to modify the header template so that the values are displayed as hyperlinks...I'll need to be able to programmatically create the hyperlink for each column using the header template text as a value.

Can you show me how to do this? I've gotten access to the header columns using the following Grid_PreRender event

protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadGrid grid = ((RadGrid)sender);

    foreach (GridItem header in grid.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Header))
    {

    }
}

I just don't know what I need to do in the foreach loop to change the header text to make it a hyperlink of the value.

Thanks for the help =)

[Princy]

Hello Philip,

The following code snippet shows how to replace grid headertext with and HyperLink.

C#:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
    {
       if (e.Item is GridHeaderItem)
         {
            GridHeaderItem item = (GridHeaderItem)e.Item;
            foreach (GridColumn col in RadGrid1.MasterTableView.AutoGeneratedColumns)
            {
                HyperLink link = new HyperLink();
                link.Text = item[col.UniqueName].Text;
                link.NavigateUrl = "http://www.yoururl.com";//attach url
                item[col.UniqueName].Controls.Clear();
                item[col.UniqueName].Controls.Add(link);
            }
        }
    }

Thanks,
Princy.

[Philip Senechal]

Hi Princy,

Thanks for the code...I finally got around to putting it in and it works perfectly!