Picking Today's Date on RadGrid Inline Insert

[Elmer Boutin]

I'm using RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX Q2 2009. I have a RadGrid set up with a GridDateTimeColumn with the PickerType="DatePicker" and EditMode="InPlace".

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" GridLines="None"

Width="100%" Height="175px" DataSourceID="odsDataSource" OnItemCreated="RadGrid1_ItemCreated"

ShowStatusBar="True" OnPreRender="RadGrid1_PreRender" OnItemInserted="RadGrid1_ItemInserted"

OnItemUpdated="RadGrid1_ItemUpdated" OnItemCommand="RadGrid1_ItemCommand"          OnInsertCommand="RadGrid1_InsertCommand"

OnUpdateCommand="RadGrid1_UpdateCommand" OnDeleteCommand="RadGrid1_DeleteCommand"

ClientSettings-Scrolling-AllowScroll="true" ClientSettings-Scrolling-SaveScrollPosition="true"

AllowAutomaticInserts="False" AllowAutomaticUpdates="False" AllowAutomaticDeletes="false"

Visible="False" HeaderStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small" HeaderStyle-Font-Bold="true"

Font-Size="XX-Small" TabIndex="50">

<MasterTableView CommandItemDisplay="Top" CommandItemSettings-RefreshText="Refresh List" DataSourceID="odsDataSource"

ShowHeadersWhenNoRecords="true" NoMasterRecordsText="No Entries" EditMode="InPlace"

ItemStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small" Font-Size="XX-Small" EditItemStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small"

EditFormSettings-EditColumn-ItemStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small">

<CommandItemSettings RefreshText="Refresh List"></CommandItemSettings>

<Columns>

<telerik:GridEditCommandColumn ButtonType="LinkButton" EditText="Edit" CancelText="Cancel"

UniqueName="EditColumn" ItemStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small">

</telerik:GridEditCommandColumn>

<telerik:GridDateTimeColumn DataField="CHECKER_DATE" HeaderText="Date" ReadOnly="false"

UniqueName="CHECKER_DATE" ItemStyle-Font-Size="XX-Small" ColumnEditorID="CHECKER_DATE"

Resizable="false" PickerType="DatePicker" DataFormatString="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" MinDate="2007-10-01">

</telerik:GridDateTimeColumn>

</Columns>              <!-- Big grid. Other columns truncated to save space -->

</MasterTableView>

</telerik:RadGrid>

When I click on a row's "Edit' link, the DatePicker shows the correct date from the database in both the box and in the calendar. However, when I click on "Insert" I want the current date to be selected and I can't seem to get that to happen.

In the codebehind page I have this method set up:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
     {
           GridEditableItem item = e.Item as GridEditableItem;
           if (e.Item.ItemIndex == -1)
           {
                (editedItem["CHECKER_DATE"].Controls[0] as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Today;
           }
     }
}

I have also tried it like this:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
     if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
     {
           GridEditableItem item = e.Item as GridEditableItem;
           if ((editedItem["CHECKER_DATE"].Controls[0] as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate.ToString().Length == 0)
            {
             editedItem["CHECKER_DATE"].Controls[0] as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Today;
            }
     }
}

I have also tried editedItem["CHECKER_DATE"].Controls[0] as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Now.Date; with no success.

I've tried some other methods which I've found on Telerik's web site and some other places and I can't seem to get this date to pre-select. 

Any ideas of what I can do to make this work.

Thanks in advance.

[Shinu]

Hi Elmer,

Try the following code snippet in order to set current date to DatePicker when in Insert mode.

cs:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridDataInsertItem && e.Item.OwnerTableView.IsItemInserted)
    {
        GridDataInsertItem insertItem = (GridDataInsertItem)e.Item;
        (insertItem["CHECKER_DATE"].Controls[0] as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Today;
    }
}

-Shinu.

[Elmer Boutin]

Shinu,

Thank you for that solution. It worked perfectly.

I did not think to put that code into the ItemDataBound method because this was on an insert command.