Hi,
Just started using igGrid here, and was wondering what would be the best approach to show a button for each row of data in igGrid ? for instance, I want to have a 'Copy' button for each row of data.
I've been looking around and found something called rowTemplate, but the jQuery js file kept throwing error, below is the code snippet:
@(Html.Infragistics().Grid<Matrix>() .AutoGenerateColumns(false) .ID("testGrid") .RenderCheckboxes(true) .Columns(column => { column.For(x => x.ID).HeaderText(" ").Width("80"); column.For(x => x.Description).DataType("string").HeaderText("Description"); column.For(x => x.Status).DataType("string").HeaderText("Status"); column.For(x => x.EffectiveFrom).DataType("date").HeaderText("Effective From"); column.For(x => x.EffectiveTo).DataType("date").HeaderText("Effective To"); column.For(x => x.CreatedBy).DataType("string").HeaderText("Created By"); }).RowTemplate("<tr><td>test</td><tr>").JQueryTemplating(true)
Your best option is to use feature called "Column template".
Here you can find the help topic on the subject and here you can find the sample in our samples browser.
Attached you can find sample demonstrating column template for your scenario.
Here is the grid initialization code:
In the sample I've defined template which creates button for the ProductID column. I also added data-id attribute to the button so I can later use it to identify the row from the grid. There is also a onclick handler which shows the data from the data-id attribute.
Note that you need to define template on the column from the data source(i.e. you cannot define unbound column).
Hope this helps,
Martin Pavlov
Infragistics, Inc.
Martin,
Thanks for the reply. That solution works but now I run into another problem. Once I use that Column Template feature, the boolean column that used to render checkboxes stop doing that.
Do you know why the grid is doing that ?
Hi Andy,
Column templates and row templates are basically the same. In fact column template internally is transformed to row template. Column template makes your job easier if you only need to set template for only a subset of the columns.
I've attached a sample which demonstrates how to put a button for alternate rows only.
Hi Martin,
I would like to add button to every alternate column in the row. I saw this post that you suggest to use column template. As I know that one can achieve the same with rowTemplate. I am just wondering what is the best practice and what are the difference between the two. Thanks.
I found a way around the problem but it's not pretty. I defined my handler like this:
$.onDissociate = function (id_) {
// Handle dissociation here
};
And the onclick looks like this:
onclick=\"$.onDissociate(this.id)\"
It's ugly but it works.
I can run your sample code just fine. However, I have the same code except I am not using the ig.loader to create the grid. When I click on one of the buttons associated with the row, my "handleCopy" method is undefined. I know it is working because I put alert(this.Id) in the onclick attribute and that works just fine. For some reason, it my event handler cannot be found.
Here's my code... as you can see I even tried passing the handler function to the function that creates the grid and that didn't work either. Any Ideas?
Thanks, that works. Missed that comment on the API.
Jeffrey