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Hi,
"first time caller".
I could not find the place in the doc or samples where the topic of grid with multiple sql data sources (or one linqdatasource) is documented. Could you please point me in the right direction (where I can hopefully find some explanation and examples).
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Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum. You will have to join your tables together in your SQL in that case. The Grid is two dimensional so it doesn’t matter where you data come from, in the end you have to give it a single two dimensional data set.
Thanks!
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Impressive response time!
Ok, so there is no equivalent to the ASP gridview templatefield in which one can deal with multiple sqldatasources (I thought that maybe the dataformat could have been used for that....)
Thanks for your very quick answer.
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Hi, That is correct. There is no equivalent of TemplateField because our Grid is very much a client side grid, where ASP.NET GridView is a server Grid. You can not nest Grid with our Grid either. The main advantage of our Grid is that it doesn't go back to the server when you edit a cell. The online documentation should be the good start point for you if you are not familiar with our Grid: http://doc.essentialobjects.com/library/1/grid/start.aspxIt's very different than the ASP.NET GridView that you are used to. :) Thanks!
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Yes, I did use the client side features already and that makes for a great user experience.
Thanks.
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You are very welcome. Just an additional note, the DataFormat property is used on the client side as well. The Grid uses that property to format "cell value" and then show the formatted result inside the cell. For example, showing images inside a cell is usually done this way by "formatting" an image Url into an img tag. It still has nothing to do with multiple data source though.
Thanks!
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