RadGrid DetailTables hiding the expand column

[Bowlsey]

Hi 

I've taken an example from the demo's site, to hide the expand button and add it into an existing column alongside the text.
using this code which is run from RadGrid1_ItemDataBound

public void CreateExpandCollapseButton(GridItem item, string columnUniqueName, String ButtonColumn)
        {
            if (item is GridDataItem)
            {
                if (item.FindControl("MyExpandCollapseButton") == null)
                {
                    Button button = new Button();
                    button.Click += new EventHandler(button_Click);
                    button.CommandName = "ExpandCollapse";
                    button.CssClass = (item.Expanded) ? "rgCollapse" : "rgExpand";
                    button.ID = "MyExpandCollapseButton";

                    if (item.OwnerTableView.HierarchyLoadMode == GridChildLoadMode.Client)
                    {
                        string script = String.Format(@"$find(""{0}"")._toggleExpand(this, event); return false;", item.Parent.Parent.ClientID);

                        button.OnClientClick = script;
                    }

                    int level = item.ItemIndexHierarchical.Split(':').Length;
                    if (level > 1)
                    {
                        button.Style["margin-left"] = level * 5 + "px";
                    }

                    TableCell cell = ((GridDataItem)item)[ButtonColumn];
                    cell.Controls.Add(button);
                    cell.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(" "));
                    cell.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(((GridDataItem)item).GetDataKeyValue(ButtonColumn).ToString()));
                }
            }
        }

But this code was for the selfHierarchy demo.  I have 6 inner details tables each within each other like so

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" OnPreRender="RadGrid1_PreRender" OnItemDataBound="RadGrid1_ItemDataBound" ShowStatusBar="true" Skin="Office2007" OnItemCreated="RadGrid1_ItemCreated"
            runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" AllowSorting="true" OnDetailTableDataBind="RadGrid1_DetailTableDataBind" OnNeedDataSource="RadGrid1_NeedDataSource" AllowMultiRowSelection="False" OnColumnCreated="RadGrid1_ColumnCreated"
            AllowPaging="false" GridLines="None">
            <MasterTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" AllowMultiColumnSorting="True" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
            <DetailTables>
            <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" Name="2" Width="100%" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
            <ParentTableRelation>
                 <telerik:GridRelationFields DetailKeyField="Link" MasterKeyField="HierarchyID" />
            </ParentTableRelation>
            <DetailTables>
                <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" Name="3" Width="100%" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
                    <ParentTableRelation>
                        <telerik:GridRelationFields DetailKeyField="Link" MasterKeyField="HierarchyID" />
                    </ParentTableRelation>
                    <DetailTables>
                    <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" Name="4" Width="100%" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
                        <ParentTableRelation>
                            <telerik:GridRelationFields DetailKeyField="Link" MasterKeyField="HierarchyID" />
                        </ParentTableRelation>
                        <DetailTables>
                        <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" Name="5" Width="100%" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
                            <ParentTableRelation>
                                <telerik:GridRelationFields DetailKeyField="Link" MasterKeyField="HierarchyID" />
                            </ParentTableRelation>
                            <DetailTables>
                            <telerik:GridTableView DataKeyNames="HierarchyID, Link, Name" Name="6" Width="100%" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="true" HorizontalAlign="Right">
                                <ParentTableRelation>
                                    <telerik:GridRelationFields DetailKeyField="Link" MasterKeyField="HierarchyID" />
                                </ParentTableRelation>
                            </telerik:GridTableView>
                            </DetailTables>
                        </telerik:GridTableView>
                        </DetailTables>
                    </telerik:GridTableView>
                    </DetailTables>
                </telerik:GridTableView>
                </DetailTables>
            </telerik:GridTableView>
            </DetailTables>
        </MasterTableView>
        </telerik:RadGrid>

So  i need to know how i can rewrite the CreateExpandCollapseButton for the detailtables and how to hide the default expand column within the details table.
Assuming something like this

            if (e.Column is GridExpandColumn)

            {

                e.Column.Visible = false;

            }

Thanks for any assistance.

Matt

[Pavlina]

Hi Bowlsey,

I suggest that you examine this help article, which elaborates on how to hide expand/collapse image and see if it helps to achieve your goal.

Additionally, in order to hide the expand/collapse images in multiple nested levels, you will need to perform a recursive loop through each table in depth. How to traverse the grid items in such manner you can learn from this topic.

Greetings,

Pavlina
the Telerik team