[Solved] Setting Default Values in Edit Form

[Jason]

I cannot find any information on how to modify the edit form (inline, popup or form). Our model contains three date fields, and the form must set a default date for one field (today's date) and then set a date +30 in the second field and the date +60 in the third field. How is this accomplished through your Grid components?

[dizzwave]

bump!
Hi Jason, did you ever find an answer to this? I'm wondering the same about defaults for date fields.

Thanks,
dave

edit: It looks like in the demos they use a DatePicker, which does allow you to set default values. It'd be nice to have defaults for text fields, but this will work for me for dates... 
edit again: Ok, so it looks like the DatePicker lets you set a global default -- e.g. all of the DatePickers in your application will default to today's date -- but I don't see how to set different defaults per field, as in your question. Telerik guys, is there a way to do this?

[Lucania]

I am also interested if there is a way to do this.

ROSCO

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi,

 If you want to set default values for new records you should use the DefaultDataItem setting:

.Editable(editing => editing.DefaultDataItem(new SomeType
            {
                Property1 = "",
                Property2 = 20
            }))

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Lucania]

Hi Atanas,

That appears to be part of the MVC extensions, is it possible using webforms?

ROSCO

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Ross,

 I am not sure what you mean. This forum is for Telerik Grid for ASP.NET MVC. Are you using the same component?

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Lucania]

Apologies I found this thread with a search, and failed to notice it was in the MVC section.

ROSCO

[Genti]

Hi Ross,

I am attaching a sample solution that illustrates what you are trying to achieve.
In my solution I am giving two options:

1) Define the dates in declaratively in the design page:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="Date1" HeaderText="Date1">
                        <ItemTemplate>
                            <asp:Label Text='<%# Eval("StartTime") %>' runat="server" />
                        </ItemTemplate>
                        <EditItemTemplate>
                             <telerik:RadDatePicker ID="picker1" MinDate="1900/1/1" runat="server"  DbSelectedDate='<%# Bind("StartTime") %>' SelectedDate='<%# System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(2) %>' ></telerik:RadDatePicker>
                        </EditItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

2) Or, if you need to make more complex manipulations to the dates you can modify them in the code behind(i have commented out this part in my solution)

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode == true)
    {
        (e.Item.FindControl("picker3") as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Now;
        (e.Item.FindControl("picker2") as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
        (e.Item.FindControl("picker1") as RadDatePicker).SelectedDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(2);
    }
}

I am also attaching the dummy database table that I used for this example.

Kind regards,
Genti
the Telerik team

[Lucania]

Thanks!

ROSCO