RadDataGrid Inline Edit Tab Between Rows

[Peter]

Is it possible to allow the user to tab to the next row when editing data?

At present tab only allows them to move to columns within the row, ideally they want to tab to the next editable column on the next row and so on, is that possible?

[Lance | Manager Technical Support]

Hi Peter,

The short answer is; no. This is not currently possible because there is no batch edit style mode that allows more than one row at a time to be in edit mode. Thus, you cannot tab into the next data item's property editors when the current data item is in the middle of an inline edit operation.

Custom Development Approach

You technically could programmatically listen to all the tab keypress events and then make a decision on whether user is leaving the last column. If true, then commit the changes to that row and programmatically put the next row in edit mode using the built-in edit commands. You can find the three commands for programmatic editing here UWP DataGrid Documentation | Edit Operation

We do not have any examples of such a custom implementation as most of the logic is not directly related to the DataGrid (e.g. the keypress listeners, data item determination, etc).

Regards,
Lance | Manager Technical Support
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