Hi Brad,

     Yes, to add controls to a cell, we can only use a template column. In here, I attached you a simple sample on how to create a cell Template in code behind. Kindly take a look and see it might can help you. 

      In my opinion, it will be a better method to inherits a cell template from ITemplate and implements the instantiateIn method.

      Thank you and have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Andi Santoso

Thanks Andi, but in my case, I cannot just create a checkbox or a label in my template because I am adding controls dynamically. Sometimes I'm creating labels, sometimes checkboxes, sometimes maybe a combination of several controls will need to be added and it would be very time consuming to create a template for each of these scenarios. It seems that the blank template works ok though. I appreciate your help.

Brad

Hi Brad,

     Yes, that might work. However, perhaps, we can pass a value to the template class and create a validation depends on the paramater's value. Please kindly take a look at my new sample of template column. See if it might help you.

     Thank you and have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Andi Santoso

Hi Andi,

Unless I'm just misunderstanding how this is used, I don't think that this will solve my problem either. What I need is to dynamically add various controls to a cell during the InitializeRow event but I won't know what all will be put in there. Here is an example:

If Not e.Row.Cells.GetNamedItem("FirstName") Is Nothing Then

Dim lbl As New Label("I want to add a label in this case")
Dim lt As New Literal("Maybe I also want to add a literal")
Dim ddl As New DropDownList()
ddl.Items.Add(New ListItem("I also want a dropdownlist"))

e.Row.Cells.GetNamedItem("Test").GetTemplateContainer().Controls.Add(lbl)
e.Row.Cells.GetNamedItem("Test").GetTemplateContainer().Controls.Add(lt)
e.Row.Cells.GetNamedItem("Test").GetTemplateContainer().Controls.Add(ddl)

End If

That is the sort of thing that I need to do. I want to add various server controls to a cell at run time but I don't know what sort of template can accomodate that. I wonder if perhaps I'm using the incorrect column type? Is there a way to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Thanks,

Brad

Hello Brad,

Please let me try to ensure your scenario once again.

e.g, You have 3 rows in WebGrid and one TemplateColumn.

In a cell which used template column, you want to add dynamic control in there.
such as:
at row 1, you want the cell to be having "label"
at row 2, you want the cell to be having "literal"
at row 3, you want the cell to be having "dropdown"

Is this what you are looking for?
So at each row, the control at template column can be different depends on the condition (dynamic).

Unfortunately, you could not do this scenario. Please let me know if I wrongly in understanding your scenario.

Regards,
Handy

Hi Brad,

      Unfortunately, at this moment, our WebGrid does not support that kind of feature. WebGrid will only allow to have one type of template column for one particular column only. Just as my colleague explained, we cannot have a different type of column template type for each different row.

      Thank you and have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Andi Santoso