The current EditFormType does not support the requested editing capabilities

[Dan]

I have a RadGrid that is populated in the code-behind with a DataTable. The grid has an edit FormTemplate:

<telerik:RadGrid ID="rgFileList" runat="server" OnItemCommand="rgFileList_ItemCommand">
            <MasterTableView HorizontalAlign="Right">
                <EditFormSettings EditFormType="Template">
                    <FormTemplate>
                        <table style="width: 85%" align="center">
                            <tr>
                                <td style="width: 35%" align="right" >Description:  </td>
                                <td style="width: 65%">
                                    <asp:TextBox ID="txtDescription" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("description") %>'></asp:TextBox>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                            <tr><tdcolspan="2"> </td></tr>
                            <tr>
                                <td colspan="2" align="center">
                                    <asp:Button ID="btnUpdate" runat="server" Text="Update" CommandName="Update" />
                                    <asp:Button ID="btnCancel" runat="server" Text="Cancel" CommandName="Cancel" />
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </FormTemplate>
                </EditFormSettings>

When I click the 'Edit' button on a row, the edit form pops up, I enter the Description textbox, and click the Update button.  Control goes to

rgFileList_ItemCommand where the code is:

protected void rgFileList_ItemCommand(object source, GridCommandEventArgs e)

    {

        string strCommand = e.CommandName.ToUpper().Trim();

 

        if (strCommand == "UPDATE")

        {

            GridEditableItem grdSelected = (GridEditableItem)e.Item;

            string filename = grdSelected.GetDataKeyValue("filename").ToString().Trim();

 

            TextBox tb = (TextBox)grdSelected.FindControl("txtDescription");

            string description = tb.Text.ToString().Trim();



the problem is that the TextBox value is the original value of description for that row, not the new value typed into the textbox.  Why?  Can't figure out why it does not result in the new value.
The GridEditableItem grdSelected object is showing:

EditManager = 'grdSelected.EditManager' threw an exception of type 'Telerik.Web.UI.GridBindingException'GridEditableItem

{"The current EditFormType does not support the requested editing capabilities."}

[Tsvetoslav]

Hello Dan,

I am not quite sure what might be the reason for the behavior you are experiencing but the best way to get the new values from the edit form is to use the editable item's ExtractValues method, passing to it a Hashtable object. The hash table will be populated with a column/values pairs collection.

Hope it helps.
 
All the best,
Tsvetoslav
the Telerik team

[Dan]

Thank you for the reply.  I found that it was my mistake.  When submitting the update, the Page_Load was rebinding the grid's DataTable.  So, the FormTemplate data entry was zapped.  I just had to rebind only on initial page load.

Dan