Selecting First Row in Grid Automatically

[Eli]

I have a RadGrid that i use to select records then display said record in a different frame/page. this is working exactly as i want it to.

Starting off, the grid is empty. the customer makes a search and it is then populated with the relevant data.

i need to be able to automatically select the first row and it then fire off the "OnSelectedIndexChanged" function i have created.

i have tried using the

grid.MasterTableView.Items[0].Selected = true;

in my codebehind. and while it does highlight the first row, it does not select/click on it to fire off the "OnSelectedIndexChanged" function.

i have also tried the clientevents options of ongridcreated, ondatabound, etc and they dont work as intended. when the page loads, before the grid is populated these client events keep firing over and over.

i need it to only fire once, when the grid is populated after a search.

 

I am really stumped here, and could use assistance.

[Attila Antal]

Hi Eli,

Assuming you have the following event handler for the SelectedIndexChanged event:

protected void RadGrid1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Label1.Text += "Selected Index Changed fired<br />";
}

Then a Post Back has happened due to filtering and you are currently on the server-side. The easiest and recommended way would be to use the FireCommandEvent() method of the Grid and fire the "Select" command.

protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadGrid grid = (sender as RadGrid);
    if (grid.MasterTableView.Items.Count > 0)
    {
        GridItem item = grid.MasterTableView.Items[0];
        item.Selected = true; // mark the item as selected
        item.FireCommandEvent("Select", string.Empty); // command to make the grid fire the SelectedIndexChanged server event
    }
}

Alternatively, you can call the SelectedIndexChanged method directly. Since you are on the server call this method directly, there is no need to wait for the grid to finish rendering and making another round-trip to the server. 

protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadGrid grid = (sender as RadGrid);
    if (grid.MasterTableView.Items.Count > 0)
    {
        GridItem item = grid.MasterTableView.Items[0];

        item.Selected = true; // mark the item as selected
        RadGrid1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender, new EventArgs()); // call the Event handler directly
    }
}

It is, of course, possible using the Client-Side APIs. Have a condition that checks whether there are Items in the grid and none of them are selected, then fire the Command Select from the client by using the fireCommand() client-side method. The problem with this, is that the Grid will first load, then do a Post Back due to the selection. If AJAX is not enabled, it will be flickering/reloading when the selection happens.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function OnGridCreated(sender, args) {
        var grid = sender;
        var masterTable = grid.get_masterTableView();

        if (masterTable.get_selectedItems().length < 1 && masterTable.get_dataItems().length > 0) {
            var firstItem = masterTable.get_dataItems()[0];
            masterTable.fireCommand("Select", firstItem.get_itemIndexHierarchical());
        }
    }
</script>

I hope this will be helpful!

Kind regards,
Attila Antal
Progress Telerik

[Eli]

Awesome! Thank you very much! you help has been invaluable!

[Jeff]

Hoping to re-open this thread.  Can you help me achieve this in VB.NET?  When I attempt this I get an error stating "Value of type GridDataItemCollection cannot be converted to GridItem"  

 

Protected Sub GridView1_PreRender(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles GridView1.PreRender
        Dim grid As RadGrid = TryCast(sender, RadGrid)
        Dim item As GridItem

        If (grid.MasterTableView.Items.Count > 0) Then
            item = grid.MasterTableView.Items[0]
            item.Selected = True
            item.FireCommandEvent("Select", String.Empty)
        End If

    End Sub

[Jeff]

Please ignore my post.  In converting C# to VB.NET I forget that brackets should be parenthesis.   This works just fine:

item = grid.MasterTableView.Items(0)