RadGrid.FindControl does not find my DropDownList

[Danilo]

I'm trying to find a DropDownList in my RadGrid using FindControl() method. But it's always returning null so it cannot find the DropDownList. I have the following HTML code:

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" AllowFilteringByColumn="True" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" GroupPanelPosition="Top" OnItemDataBound="RadGrid1_ItemDataBound">
    <ClientSettings>
        <Scrolling AllowScroll="True" UseStaticHeaders="True" />
    </ClientSettings>
    <MasterTableView AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" CommandItemDisplay="Top">
        <Columns>
            <telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="myName" HeaderText="header text">
                <EditItemTemplate>
                    <asp:DropDownList ID="myDropDown" DataTextField="TextFieldValue" DataValueField="ValueFieldValue" runat="server"/>
                </EditItemTemplate>
        </Columns>
    </MasterTableView>
</telerik:RadGrid>

 

And I'm trying to find "myDropDown" using this C# code:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridDataItem)
    {
        GridDataItem item = (GridDataItem)e.Item;
        DropDownList list = (DropDownList)item.FindControl("myDropDown");
    }
}

 

But it cannot find the DropDownList. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Any help appreciated.

Regards,
Danilo

[Maria Ilieva]

Hi,

Try the following:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
 if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
 {
        GridEditableItem item = (GridEditableItem)e.Item;
        DropDownList list = (DropDownList)item.FindControl("myDropDown");
 }
}

Regards,
Maria Ilieva
Telerik

[Danilo]

Hi Maria

Thank you for your answer. But your code doesn't work as well. e.Item.IsInEditMode is always false. And even if I remove e.Item.IsInEditMode, the DropDownList cannot be found by the code.

Any other ideas?

[Pavlina]

Hi,

The code my colleague Maria sent you in the previous post shows how you can access the DropDownList control generated in the editable item, because the control is placed in EditItemTemplate. Note that you will need to use different approach for accessing the control depending to the chosen EditFormType. Could you please specify what is the EditMode in your case? If you don't need control to be in edit mode you should add the DropDownList in TemplateColumn ItemTemplate as shown below:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="myName" HeaderText="header text">
                               <ItemTemplate>
                                   <asp:DropDownList ID="myDropDown" DataTextField="TextFieldValue" DataValueField="ValueFieldValue" runat="server" />
                               </ItemTemplate>
                           </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Additionally, for more information about accessing controls in Template column I recommend you examine the article below:
http://docs.telerik.com/devtools/aspnet-ajax/controls/grid/rows/accessing-cells-and-rows
  
Regards,
Pavlina
Telerik

[Danilo]

Hi Pavlina,

Thanks for your explanation. It works fine.

Regards,
Danilo