Programmatic Databinding With Groups

[digitall]

I have a basic recurring table with the following columns:

Id
Name
ManagerId (this is an FK contraint to Id on the same table)

The markup for my RadOrgChart is this:

<telerik:RadOrgChart ID="RadOrgChart1" runat="server" DataFieldID="Id" DataTextField="Name" DataFieldParentID="ManagerId" Skin="Windows7" GroupColumnCount="4">
        </telerik:RadOrgChart>

I am doing programmatic data-binding with the following:

this.RadOrgChart1.DataSource = from emp in new TestDataContext().Employees select emp;
this.RadOrgChart1.DataBind();

Is it possible to do groups with this setup? Specifically, while this is only a sample, my OrgChart is far too large to display on a screen with some sample data. What I'm hoping to do is show a visualization where the top entry points to a single group of entries (unknown number of items in this group) below it, that group points to a single group below it (unknown number of items in this group) and so on for up to a specified number of levels. This way the width is fairly static, but it conveys the information I'm trying to display. I'll be binding with specific entities via a WCF service so a declarative datasource isn't an option.

Any suggestions?

[digitall]

Essentially what I'm hoping to do is this: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/orgchart/examples/columncount/defaultcs.aspx, however I need it to be database-driven (with programatic binding) whereas that demo appears to contain only static data. If possible I'd also like to name each group like "Level #1", "Level #2" and so on.

[Peter Filipov]

Hi,

I am not quite sure what you want to achieve. Let me give you an example of my suggestion. In case that your idea is different, please give me more details about how to change it and fit into your scenario.

To have groups you need to use Group-Enabled Binding. The text on them is represented by a RenderedField.

Kind regards,
Peter Filipov
the Telerik team

[digitall]

From a cursory overview that appears to be exactly what I needed. Thanks!