Copying grid records

[dinesh upreti]

Hi,
I am using gridgrouping control.
I am trying to simulate copy functionality in the grid, but not exactly a copy paste. I am using custom entities to bind the solution. The catch here is that the custom entity is having another entity as a property, so the entity is not pretty flat. Now when I say copy, I want that certain values should be excluded in the copied data.

product entity

public class product
{
private int id;
public int Id
{
get { return id; }
set { id = value; }
}
private string type;
public string Type
{
get { return type; }
set { type = value; }
}
Dictionary _productFeatures;
public Dictionary ProductFeatures
{
get { return _productFeatures; }
set { _productFeatures = value; }
}
}

feature entity

public class feature
{
private int featureId;
public int FeatureId
{
get { return featureId; }
set { featureId = value; }
}
private int featureDescription;
public int FeatureDescription
{
get { return featureDescription; }
set { featureDescription = value; }
}
}

In the example above, product is having a collection of ProductFeatures and I am binding a collection of product entities to grid.
Now when I select a product on grid and click on a button which invokes copy, I want a new record to be inserted into the grid except the product id(which I am getting from Data base).

The follwing code works fine if I have to just copy the product, had it been a flat entity

newID = GetNewIDFromDB()
this.dgRangePlanGrid.Table.AddNewRecord.SetCurrent();
this.dgRangePlanGrid.Table.AddNewRecord.BeginEdit();
this.dgRangePlanGrid.Table.CurrentRecord.SetValue("id", newID);
this.dgRangePlanGrid.Table.AddNewRecord.EndEdit();

what do I do when product is having a collection inside?

[Administrator]

Hi Dinesh,

This can be achieved by using the TableModel.ClipboardCopy add the information you want to the clipboard and then handle TableModel.ClipboardPaste and retrieve your clibboard object and use it. Here is a forum thread discuss with the simillar issue.

http://www.syncfusion.com/support/forums/message.aspx?&MessageID=10877

Best regards,
Haneef

[dinesh upreti]

hi,

Let me make my problem more clear. The copy functionality I am looking for is not the copy pase in classical sense. I select a row, click on a button "Copy", and the selected row gets added in the grid, without the user invoking any paste. The copied data doesnot goes into the clipboard as i am not doing any ctrl+c.

Another quey is that after the data has been bound to a grid, if there are any changes in the underlying data source by some other process, how to get those changes reflected in the Grid?

Thanks

[Administrator]

hi,

Let me make my problem more clear. The copy functionality I am looking for is not the copy pase in classical sense. I select a row, click on a button "Copy", and the selected row gets added in the grid, without the user invoking any paste. The copied data doesnot goes into the clipboard as i am not doing any ctrl+c.

Another quey is that after the data has been bound to a grid, if there are any changes in the underlying data source by some other process, how to get those changes reflected in the Grid?

Thanks