Hi,

Our Grid is very much a client side Grid control, so you would not be able to use server template directly. You can do the following:

1. Customize various grid styles, for example, SelectedStyle, HoverStyle, etc. This would be the equivalent of the appearance aspect of your server template;
2. Customize the Grid cell HTML by directly suply the desired HTML to the Grid. For example, in order to display an image inside a GridCell, you would set that GridCell's Value to "<img src='xxxx' />". The Grid provides various means to facilitate that. This would be the equivalent of the content aspect of your server template;

So the bottom line is, everything is possible, but you are working with CSS + HTML, not server controls. This is necessary in order to support many client side functionalities such as switching to edit mode without going back to the server side, which is not possible if we were to support server template.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

No. It's not as simple as that. You will never specify a Value on the column because each Cell has a value. So the Value is not associated to a column. It's associated to a cell. You will want to go over these topics:

http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=Grid%2fdata_binding.html
http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=EO.Web.GridColumn.DataFormat.html
http://www.essentialobjects.com/ViewDoc.aspx?t=EO.Web.GridColumn.DataField.html

For example, you can have a image path in a field (identified by DataField property) in your data source, you can set your DataFormat as "<img src='{0}' />". At runtime, the Grid automatically takes the value of each DataField, format with DataFormat and then render the result HTML inside each Grid cell.

Thanks