Before digging too much, I would like to know if the new "Row Edit Templates" feature of V8.2 could be easily used to implement mass update functionality ?
ie: The user would select multiple rows, then programmatically trigger the display of the row template in some event (ex: context menu). There would be also some way to inform the user that for a particular column, different values exist for the selected rows (ex: display "<Value>" in the row template CellProxy.
TIA,
Guillaume.
The template cannot be used on a FilterRow, though I suppose that you could programmatically change the underlying filters; the CellProxies will never be tied to the FilterRow, though. It can be used to the AddNewRowTemplate, though; I'd recommend playing around with it to see. Both the RET sample in the grid's SamplesExplorer as well as the new sample that ships with 8.2 (I forget the name, is a new application sample) use the template.
-Matt
That is an interesting idea. I was wandering about using it for a more advanced filtering/parameter selection entry screen perhaps tied to the filterrow.
Maybe your idea could be tied to the addnewrowtemplate. Will be interesting to see any responses.
Nick
Guillaume,
The RowEditTemplate has the restriction that you can only edit one row at a time, following the same guideline that you can only have one given ActiveCell at a time. I'm not sure what your question is about using the CellProxy to display a value, since a CellProxy is directly linked to a cell in the currently active row. You could certainly put a different editor on the template and have it list whatever you want, though you can't have multiple templates open at once.