Trigger Grid View Validation

[Minal]

Is there a way to trigger the entire grid to validate all its rows from an external trigger like a button click which is outside of the grid. In our application the grid is dynamic i.e. columns are added dynamically so we are doing the row validations in the roweditvalidating event. But we also want to trigger validations when a Save button is clicked outside the grid.Is there an API we can use in the save click event handler that can trigger the entire grid to validate rows again or somehow trigger the roweditvalidating event for each row?

[Pavel Pavlov]

Hello Minal Dharod,

I am afraid RadGridView does not provide such api . Validation may be triggered only on edit ending at cell and row level.

Regards,
Pavel Pavlov
the Telerik team

[Tim]

I had the same problem thus reading this thread was frustrating. However, I finally found a way to validate rows on demand:

void _viewModel_RequestValidation(object sender, EventArgs e)         
{             
    // force validation be setting all rows into edit mode and back.             
    foreach (TimeReportEntryViewModel timeReportEntryViewModel in _viewModel.TimeReports)
             {                 
                    GridViewRow item = (GridViewRow)MyGrid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(timeReportEntryViewModel);
                    if (item != null)                 
                    {
                         (item.Cells[0] as GridViewCell).BeginEdit();
                         MyGrid.CommitEdit();
                     }
             }
}

It works for my requiremets so I wanted to share this with you.