Hi,

I am currently having issues with RadGridView's group footer: I am trying to add a button to the footer template which is supposed to trigger a command which in turn needs some info on the group it was triggered from*.

Since (unlike the header) there does not seem to be any info on the group available directly within the GroupFooterTemplate, I am pulling the group info from the parent GridViewGroupFooterRow:

                <telerik:GridViewDataColumn [...]>
                    <telerik:GridViewColumn.GroupFooterTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                            <Button Command="{Binding DataContext.ShowFooterGroupCommand, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=telerik:RadGridView}}"
                                    CommandParameter="{Binding Group.Key, RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=telerik:GridViewGroupFooterRow}}" />
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </telerik:GridViewColumn.GroupFooterTemplate>
                </telerik:GridViewDataColumn>

This is working great as long as the RadGridView does not use Row virtualization. However, when I turn on Row virtualization and scroll around for a bit, the value I get passed as the CommandParameter is more or less random and has nothing to do with the group my button is actually located in.

I attached a small example project (.Net 6 but our app uses 4.8 so I set that as the Framework below) for you to try it yourself. Just scroll around and click the buttons while watching the debug output window. You will see that the groups in the output window will not match the group where you actually clicked the button after some scrolling.

Expected Behavior

Even when virtualizing, the Group key returned when binding to GridViewGroupFooterRow.Group(.Key) should reliably return the key of the actual group my button is placed in. It would be even better if it was somehow possible to get the group directly, without having to resort to FindAncestor.

Regards
Simon Müller
Hofmann Fördertechnik GmbH

* Basically I am trying to give the user a possibility to add new items to the individual groups and I don't want to add the button to the group header since that makes it too easy to accidentally hit the header's RadToggleButton, collapsing the group.