Batch Edit Mode
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The Bootstrap Grid View control allows you to modify a batch of grid data on the client side and send it to the server in a single request. All user changes are maintained on the client side until an end-user explicitly saves or cancels them using the corresponding buttons displayed within the grid’s Status Bar. To enable the batch editing functionality, set the ASPxGridViewEditingSettings.Mode property to Batch.
In this mode, data displayed on the current grid page can be edited using in-line editors. The GridViewBatchEditSettings.EditMode property allows you to specify which control element (a data cell or data row) is used to edit data.
To prevent an end-user from editing column cells, set a column’s GridColumnEditFormSettings.Visible property to false. In this case, column cells cannot be switched to the edit mode. When an end-user navigates through cells using the TAB key, column cells are skipped.
Note
Since data modification is performed on the client side in batch edit mode, the server-side ASPxGridView.StartEdit and ASPxGridView.AddNewRow methods are not in effect. Additionally, the client-side ASPxClientGridView.AddNewRow method does not perform a callback.
If the grid contains modified data, it displays a “confirm” message before a grid callback or postback is performed. You can customize the message text using the ASPxGridTextSettings.ConfirmOnLosingBatchChanges property or disable it by setting the GridBatchEditSettings.ShowConfirmOnLosingChanges property to false.
Note
Since row selection is based on row keys, and newly created rows do not exist in the grid (have no row keys), these newly created rows cannot be selected until they are saved. That’s why select check boxes of the newly created rows are disabled until they are saved.
Batch Edit Mode Events
In batch edit mode, you can use the GridViewClientSideEvents.BatchEditStartEditing and GridViewClientSideEvents.BatchEditEndEditing events to perform custom actions when grid editing starts and ends, respectively.
Batch Edit Mode Limitations
- The JavaScript code contained within the href link attribute is not executed in Internet Explorer. To learn more, see the Links / “A” tags do not work in IE together with GridView in Batch Edit Mode Knowledge Base Article.
- The date range functionality of embedded date editors does not work in Cell batch edit mode.