I'm trying to figure out how to report success or failure of backend operations to the user someplace on the grid. For instance, when the user tries to save changes to a record in the grid and the save fails, some place on the grid a message shows up in red and says "the changes to this record did not save" or "ERROR" or something like that.
I saw that you could do this awhile back using GridStatusBarItem but that was obsoleted in a 2009 release. How do I do something like this?
thanks for the great product,
rm
I saw that you could do this awhile back using GridStatusBarItem but that was obsoleted in a 2009 release. How do I do something like this?
thanks for the great product,
rm
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Hello Ric,
There are a couple of ways you can implement a status bar item now that it no longer is supported by default in RadGrid:
1. You can use the CommandItemTemplate to define custom content in your command item. You can have, for example, a label that you can find and set its Text when you want to report a message to the user.
2. You can use the GridFooterItem (setting ShowFooter="True" in the MasterTableView) and modify its cells to have it contain a single cell spanning all the column. You can then add a Label or another control to the cell to contain your message.
Both of these approaches are demonstrated in the attached test pages. Default.aspx demonstrates the first approach, Default2.aspx - the second. Note that in both cases, I set the text message as late as the PreRender event of the page or the control. This gives RadGrid a chance to rebind on postback (if needed). As rebinding recreates the grid structure, if I set the text earlier, it will not show.
Regards,
Veli
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There are a couple of ways you can implement a status bar item now that it no longer is supported by default in RadGrid:
1. You can use the CommandItemTemplate to define custom content in your command item. You can have, for example, a label that you can find and set its Text when you want to report a message to the user.
2. You can use the GridFooterItem (setting ShowFooter="True" in the MasterTableView) and modify its cells to have it contain a single cell spanning all the column. You can then add a Label or another control to the cell to contain your message.
Both of these approaches are demonstrated in the attached test pages. Default.aspx demonstrates the first approach, Default2.aspx - the second. Note that in both cases, I set the text message as late as the PreRender event of the page or the control. This gives RadGrid a chance to rebind on postback (if needed). As rebinding recreates the grid structure, if I set the text earlier, it will not show.
Regards,
Veli
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answered on 18 Sep 2010, 03:53 PM
Veli - thanks so much for the examples and the great narrative! I am up and running!