RadGrid - Conditional cell display in serverside

[Sub]

In a MVC view page, I set the data source of the Grid control.
 
I want to conditionally populate the cells based on the data in the server side of the view in C#. How do I populate it?
 
I used to do it in the ItemDataBound server side event. Is there any way I can loop throgh the datasource and declarativley define the ItemTemplate of the GridTemplateColumn? Please let me know how I can do conditional display in server side.

Thanks

[Rosen]

Hi,

In order to achieve the desired functionality you may use a small helper method which to perform the transformation. Similar to the following:

Column declaration:

         <telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
                <HeaderTemplate>
                   EmployeeID
                </HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <%#FormatValue(((GridDataItem) Container)) %>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Code behind:

        protected string FormatValue(GridDataItem dataItem)
        {
            var fieldValue = (int)DataBinder.Eval(dataItem.DataItem, "MyFieldName");

            if(fieldValue > 20)
            {
                return "some text";
            }
            return "some other text";
        }

Sincerely yours,
Rosen
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[Sub]

When you said "Code behind" did you mean "View"? Writing a method in a View?

[Sub]

I think Html.RenderPartial is a better way if we have multiple controls to be rendered on conditional basis on the Model object. I tried to pass the GridDataItem in various possible syntax with no success. I want to have something like below and what is the correct syntax to make it work?

 

<ItemTemplate>

 

 

<%

 

Html.RenderPartial("ConditionalCell", Eval("TestCol")); %>

 

 

 

</ItemTemplate>

 

 

[Sub]

Is there any update from Telerik on how to use RenderPartial inside the item template?

[Rosen]

Hello,

You may implement your own extension methods which to build the appropriate markup.

Here is a simple example:

using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Mvc.Html;
using System.Web.UI;
using Telerik.Web.UI;

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public static class MyHtmlExtensions
    {
        public static string RenderCellContent<T>(this HtmlHelper helper, T dataItem) where T: GridItem
        {
            var fieldValue = (int)DataBinder.Eval(dataItem.DataItem, "EmployeeID");

            if (fieldValue > 20)
            {
                return helper.ActionLink("some link text", "some actionName");
            }
            return helper.TextBox("some textbox", "some value");
        }
    }
}

and a simple usage:

          <telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
                <HeaderTemplate>
                   EmployeeID
                </HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <%#Html.RenderCellContent(Container)%>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

I hope this helps and will get you started in building your own extension methods.

Kind regards,
Rosen
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[FRANK]

Telerik Team,

In Radgrid, I would like to provide hyperlink in a column based on data condition.

Example: Let say I have column Named "ApprovalStatus" which will have values like "To Be Approved", "Approved" or  "Rejected". I need to provide link when cell value is "To Be Approved" else no url link. On click of "To Be Approved", will redirect new page.

I don't have System.Web.MVC library installed. I am using Telerik components version 2008.3.1314.35.
I would like to know what is the best to achieve this in telerik radgrid without using MVC? Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ram
BBVA 

     

[Yavor]

Hi Andres,

Basically, you can provide the hyperlink by default, in either a gridHyperlinkColumn, or a template column. Then, you can simply hide the hyperlink conditionally. This may be similar to the approach demonstrated in the following article:

http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grdconditionalimagedisplayingridcolumn.html

I hope this information helps.

Best wishes,
Yavor
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[Jon Wood]

I'm looking for a similar solution and the link provided is broken - is there an updated link for this? Does this content still exist?  Thx!

[Jon Wood]

I found the correct url - it is : http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grid-conditional-image-display-in-grid-column.html