[Solved] setting the row edit buttons on the left of the grid

[Babu Mannaravalappil]

Hi,

I have disabled autogenerate columns on the grid and create them declaratively and in some other cases, programmatically.   Either case, I have autogenerate edit column set to true.  When the grid is rendered on screen, the Edit link button column aslways appear as the last column in the grid.  In many cases, I would like to have it displayed as the first column of the grid.  How can I accomplish this?
I don't see (or missed) any property on the grid that I can set for this purpose.

Babu.

[Shinu]

Hi Babu,

One suggestion to accomplish this is swap the EditColumn with the first column in the grid as shown below.

CS:

    protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RadGrid1.MasterTableView.SwapColumns("ColumnUniqueName1", "AutoGeneratedEditColumn"); // ColumnUniqueName1 is the columnuniquename of the first column
    }

Regards,
Shinu.

[Babu Mannaravalappil]

Thanks Shinu,

Your suggestion doesn't seem to be an elegant one.  What are the other suggestions.  I know, If I created the command columns in code, I can put them anywhere I want.  But when command columns are autogenerated, It would be nice to have a column index property or something along those lines for the position of this column.  Or at least either a left or right position property would be nice.  May be something like that is already available.  Could you let me know please?

Babu.