Second RadGrid nested inside Main RadGrid's From Template

[Danielle Mascher]

Good morning

I have a main Radgrid that uses Advanced data binding and has uses a form template to add/edit grid users. This all works perfectly.

Inside the form template, I have RadTabstrip and Multipage.

The first page view contains the fields neccessary to add/ update grid items and in the second page view I have a second Radgrid that displays additional information linked to the selected user.

THe second RadGrid gets bound in the main RadGrid's itemdatabound event handler and I need to bind the second RadGrid using advanced data binding as i need to implement paging.

So the issue I am having, is that I cannot access the second RadGrid control inside its needdatasource event handler as it's inside my first grid's from template.

Can you please show me how to access this control or show me a better way of binding the second RadGrid that would still allow for paging.

Thank you!

Danielle
 

[Princy]

Hello Danielle,

The source parameter in NeedDataSource event refers to the grid which invokes the event. You can directly access the RadGrid control from the 'source' as shown below.

C#:

protected void RadGrid2_NeedDataSource(object source, GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e)

{

RadGrid grid = (RadGrid)source; // Get reference to grid

GridDataItem item = (GridDataItem)(grid.NamingContainer as GridEditFormItem).ParentItem;  // Get the mastertableview item

string id = item["CustomerID"].Text; // Get the value

grid.DataSource = getDataTable(id); // Populate the grid according to parent item cell value, (call the method by passing value)

}

The code shows how to get the parent item value and populate the grid based on that value. I hope this would help you.

Happy coding,
Princy.