[Solved] Row Selection with Server Binding

[Kevin Burandt]

I have server binding with paging, etc. working using IQueryable and verified with the profiler as returning only the selected page and going to a detail page using a column action

columns.Template(s => Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { s.Id }))
                            .ClientTemplate("<a href=\"" + Url.Action("Edit", "Customer") + "/<#= Id#>\">Edit</a>")
                            .Width(50)
                            .Title("Edit");

And this works but is not what I want either:

.DataBinding(dataBinding => dataBinding
                .Server()
                .Select("Edit", "Customer")

 I want to be able to click anywhere on a row and invoke an action as in the AJAX selection client side example ClientSideDemo.

1) Is an action on row selection only possible using AJAX binding?
2) If yes, how?  If not and I use AJAX binding how can I take advantage of the grid features such as column sort, filtering, etc. server-side?

Thanks,
Kevin

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Kevin Burandt,

 The Select() databinding configuration is used for retrieving the items - like in SQL. It is not for row selection. In your case you can make the grid Selectable() and handle the OnRowSelect event. There you can  simulate a click() of the edit link button or just perform navigation to the right url. Here is a short example:

function onRowSelect(e) {
    $(e.row).find("a").click(); 
}

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team