RadGrid - Accessing a cell on ItemDataBound

[Brad]

Hi

I have a RadGrid in which is some data. One of the columns of data is an nvarchar(MAX) filed in which there could be a little to a lot of text, at the prerogative of the user.

I'm trying find a way to read the text out of the grid, modify it to be truncated down to say the first 50 characters, and put it back in the cell.

I found this page on this site that talks about this exact issue. Alas the code here does work.

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet/grid/grdaccessingcellsandrows.html

The code on this page says I can read the cell value with this syntax

TableCell cell = dataItem["ColumnUniqueName"];

Alas this does not work as 'dataItem' does not exist.

I have tried this code in my grids ItemDataBound method,

protected void rgNotes_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridDataItem && e.Item.OwnerTableView.DataSourceID == "dsNotes")
    {
        TableCell cell = dataItem["NoteText"];
    }
}

I even tried

TableCell cell = e.Item["NoteText"];

to no avail.

Anyone here have a solution to this, what should be a pretty obvious' issue?

Brad

[Shinu]

Hello Brad,

You need to save the dataItem first.
C#:

if (e.Item is GridDataItem && e.Item.OwnerTableView.DataSourceID == "dsNotes")
{
   GridDataItem dataItem= e.Item as GridDataItem;
   TableCell cell = dataItem["NoteText"];
}

Thanks,
Shinu.

[Brad]

Thanks Shinu.

Brad