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Good Day gentlemen,
We recently purchased the suite and are happy with it, even though its proven quite beneficial there are quite a few issues which were not expected. And hopefully you will help us in tackling them.
My problems prioritized:
1-when editing, i need to edit paragraphs , which means text with multiple lines, which means when we press enter we want to insert a new line not end the editing, please tell me this behavior can be changed by some code or markup even though I didn’t find anything yet.
2-why can't we use evaluation in the columns/cell items: example Eval("Customer.Address.Line1")
Or simply do DataField="Customer.Address.Line1" . This kind of functionality is standard even in .NET standard Grid View.
3-why is the keyfield property only holds exactly one field?! We need to have more than one keyfield, i solve this by hidden columns but perhaps you need to think about this in the next release.
Please help me solve the first issue ASAP, I would love to utilize this control and others more and more but some features need to be added :)
I have comments on other controls which I may suggest in the appropriate forum, but again please help me solve issue 1.
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Hi,
Thank you very much for posting in the forum. As to your questions:
#1: seems to be a problem and we will need to change our code to support that. We will look into it and see what's the best way to support this and let you know as soon as we implement it;
#2: This is by design. All other Grid View are server side Grid control. Our Grid is mostly a client side Grid control. While perform most tasks on the client side offers a better user experience, it does not take server side data binding expression because it the relative code does not run on the server side;
#3: You can always concatenate multiple values to create a single value with your SQL statement. That may be easier to implement than using hidden columns;
We will update this thread again once we have an update on #1. Please feel free to let us know if you have any comments on other controls. User feedbacks are always extremely important to us.
Thanks!
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Thank you for your support! I Appreciate it. and I'm hoping that issue #1 would be feasible to implement in a soon to be released build :p
I like the fact that the control is using client side, makes the experience better and faster.
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Hi,
We have posted a new build that supports enter key. You will need to set the column's TextBoxMode to "MultiLine". You also need to set the columns' TextBoxRows to a number that is greater than 1. This way when the cell enters edit mode, a multiple line textbox is displayed and you can press enter when focus is inside that textbox.
Note the Grid row will not automatically expand to accommodate the text. Currently even if you can enter multiple line text, they are still displayed in one line once you leaves edit mode. In the future we may change this so that linebreaks will be correctly displayed; but lines that exceed item height will be clipped off.
Thanks!
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