Would be nice to have RadGrid offer the feature to have options to Merge Cells with same contents so the report/grid won't be so busy. Users typically expect this kind of look and feel. 

Example & code included:
    http://www.marss.co.ua/2010/01/how-to-merge-cells-with-equal-values-in.html

This ticket discussed it also: 1091013

Others in forums asked about this also in the past since about 2009, if we google on: telerik grid asp.net merge cell. .
http://www.telerik.com/forums/problems-with-merge-row-in-radgrid

http://www.telerik.com/forums/merge-cells-by-column

http://www.telerik.com/forums/merge-rows

Then I found this link among the results from google. Though, I wish there are RowMerge and ColumnMerge properties in RadGrid for us to turn it on/off. That will be wonderful.

http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/winforms/details/radgridview-merge-celss

This example is also from the following link from the same google search result, the first link.

http://www.telerik.com/forums/merge-cell-in-radgrid

Thanks.

I would like to suggest that the Buttons in the RadGrid allow databinding to the CommandName and CommandArgument fields.  And pretty much all the buttons or anything that triggers an ItemCommand event that allow a CommandName and CommandArgument have their properties to be databound and accessible in the code behind.

Thanks!!!

For keyboard users who don't have a specific Context Menu key (see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key), they typically need to use the Windows standard SHIFT+F10 hotkey to trigger a contextmenu event.

For example:

1.	In IE, load http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/columns-rows/columns/context-menu/defaultcs.aspx
2.	Tab to a column header link
3.	Press SHIFT+F10 (standard Windows/IE hotkey to open context menu)
4.	Notice the context menu displays, however, the focus is really on the IE menubar. IE supports F10 to open the menubar, but is also seeing SHIFT+F10 too.

Or
1.	In FireFox, load http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/columns-rows/columns/context-menu/defaultcs.aspx
2.	Tab to a column header link
3.	Press SHIFT+F10 (standard Windows/IE hotkey to open context menu) then press down arrow
4.	Notice the context menu displays, however, the focus is really on FireFox's application system menu in the upper left.

Chrome does not have this issue - it opens the grid context menu only.
We need IE and FireFox to also only open the grid's context menu, and not trigger default browser behavior.

According to https://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/event/contextmenu.html, it is possible to correct this behavior by calling event.preventDefault() when SHIFT+F10 is pressed, but then trigger a synthetic contextmenu event anyway.

As a workaround, we know users can press Escape to close the browser's default menu and bring focus back into the HTML document (and thus the grid's context menu), but this throws off the user experience and becomes a training issue.

RadGrid GridDateTimeColumnEditor is unable to process data of type TimeSpan if PickerType is set to TimePicker.

As a workaround, a GridTemplateColumn can be used with a TimePicker inside EditTemplate

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn>
	<ItemTemplate>
		<%# Eval("Field") %>
	</ItemTemplate>
	<EditItemTemplate>
		<telerik:RadTimePicker ID="RadTimePicker1" runat="server" SelectedTime='<%# Bind("Field") %>'></telerik:RadTimePicker>
	</EditItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

There are two easy solutions:
- set HighlightDeletedRows to false
- use the built-in Save Changes button in the command item

A workaround is attached that allows you to use an external button and highlight deleted rows.
It will cause other changes apart from deletion on a row to be lost, but deleted rows will be sent to the server.

Using Entity Framework Code First and model binding in a RadGrid, in insert row there is a default value for all non-string types that are not nullable.

For example "0" for Int or Decimal, "01/01/0001" for Date, etc...

So we have to make code to clear these values in textboxs or make SQL requests to give a default value to RadComboBoxs linked to a Foreign Key.

This does not happens using a FormView and model binding.
This does not happens using a RadGrid and EntityDataSource .

Please make an option to let all controls blank in insert mode without doing code !

Default values are provided for fields with non-string type in insert mode when RadGrid is bound using Model Binding. The reason behind it, is that the Insert item of the RadGrid is being bound similar to the edit Item and values are then provided by the framework.

Please create an option to remove the default values when inserting a new record.

The ability to freeze columns on the left in a RadGrid is a great feature.  However freezing them from both the left AND right would be even better.

I have a scenario where the far left column in a date field (which is frozen and works great).  Then there are about 30 columns that scroll.  The final column is a "totals" column for that week, and it would be great if that was frozen on the right so I don't need to scroll all the way over to see that column...

When virtualization is enabled for RadGrid, NeedDataSource is called at every Post back with RebindReason = ExplicitRebind, regardless of the event target.

Currently the Width of the Edit controls inside the inline Edit form of the Grid can be set only in pixels. In order to be able to implement a responsive layout the developer has to be able to set the width of these controls in percentage.

Have built-in option to do LIKE filtering on grids.

The SearchRow in RadGridView WinForms is extremely good.

https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/controls/gridview/rows/search-row 

How can we implement the same in ASP.Net Ajax RadGrid?

.hasChanges() results in records flagged for Delete to not actually get deleted when .saveChanges() executes.

I found the same behaviour on a LiveDemo example that checks .hasChanges(): Grid - Binding to Telerik ClientDataSource

Steps to reproduce:

• Make any change to the first record, such as modifying the Contact Name.
• On the second record, Click the "x" under the DELETE column to mark it for delete.
• Click any column heading to sort.  (This calls a UserAction event handler that calls .hasChanges())
• Choose to Cancel at the popup prompt.
• Click "Save changes".
• Monitor the browser console, you will find that webservice UpdateCustomers is called,  but DeleteCustomers is not.

 

We used Telerik in our application. The network team reported a spam in it.

Using Telerik grid with SortExpression in telerik:GridTemplateColumn, has been reported as high priority network issue.

 

Issue name : Ajax request header manipulation (DOM-based)

 

Recorded the issue in below snippet of responce.

onclick="Telerik.Web.UI.Grid.Sort()"
 
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.!!!

Current RadGrid only has headers/header templates for column headers. The only way to have headers for each row would be to manipulate the grid data and adding the header for each row into the grid data itself. And if we wanted to group the row headers is another round of manipulating the grid data and also manually merging the cells. Is it possible to have to have it as a feature of the RadGrid just like column groups and column headers to simplify the task? example of the final output ->

  

Grid in BatchEdit mode must be one of the most useful features in some serious industry-level web applications. It comes quite naturally, that the data in the grid must be often extensively validated, and in many cases the client side validation is simply not enough. In our case, we had to use BatchEditing mode and we had to validate user-entered values serverside (due to complex rules, external data to validation against in real time and safety/security of the validation itself). 

Documentation states that BatchEdit does not support ServerSide validation. This makes BatchEdit mode mostly useless for some serious use, which is a pitty. But how much is needed to do so? The only thing we need is, when processing RadGrid_BatchEditCommand, to send the unsaved changes back to the client (overwrite the old values which would come from the database via NeedDataSource) and mark the changed cells as "EDITED" or "CHANGED", because:

 

a. We have to make sure, that the unsaved rows from the session variable will always come up, next time the user hits the Save changes button, in the BatchEditCommand in Hashtable newValues = command.NewValues; This is because only rows, which RadGrid understand as changed by user-client side, will come up in the newValues HashTable. In case that the user changed, in the first server-side roundtrip, rows 1 and 2, rows 1 and 2 would be saved to the session variable and they would be presented to the user, but in the second round user would not change rows 1 and 2 but change only row 3, it would be only row 3 which would come up in RadGrid1_BatchEditCommand the newValues Hashtable, and we would never get previous, still unsaved, changes

b. in case the user goes to the next page of the grid, using paging arrows in the grid, the grid normally warns about unsaved changes and prevents user from going to the next page, if there are any unsaved changes. If our changed rows from the session are not marked as EDITED, the grid would never ask this and would proceed to the next page, losing users changes.

We were fighting to make this work via some session variables, etc, but then Doncho from Telerik support sent us this simple solution. I think many would be happy if you could add it to the next release, so it is supported out of the box. Attaching files from Doncho, which give an ide to the solution

Thank you.

 

Good morning,

we have a strange issue using RadGrid with horizontal scroll and frozen columns: there a resizing of the height which gets user experience not the best.

See attached gif.

 

Could you please help us?

When the Grid is set to have FilterType="HeaderContext" and filtering by a keyword that starts with a question mark "?MyKeyword", an exception will be thrown: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range.

The issue can be replicated in our online demo Excel-like Filtering.

Note that the demos will not display the exact exception because it is handled by the CustomError mechanism of the demo site.

When a big number of items are bound to RadGrid on the server side and Virtualization is enabled paging to the last item is not working as expected.

The problem can be reproduced with the setup in the following demo:

• https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/performance/virtualization/defaultcs.aspx 

Increasing the number of Customers bound to the Grid to more than 1000000 leads to the problem.