Initializing New Cards
The CardView extension allows you to define the default field values displayed within the built-in edit form of the newly added records.
To initialize card values in code, define the initial values in the ASPxDataInitNewRowEventArgs.NewValues dictionary within a delegate method, and assign this delegate method to the CardViewSettings.InitNewCard property.
Example:
@Html.DevExpress().CardView(settings => {
settings.Name = "CardView";
// ...
settings.KeyFieldName = "CategoryID";
settings.Columns.Add("CategoryID");
settings.Columns.Add("CategoryName");
settings.Columns.Add("Description");
// Process the initialization of new cards.
settings.InitNewCard = (s, e) =>
{
e.NewValues["CategoryName"] = "Seafood";
e.NewValues["Description"] = "Seafood and fish";
};
}).Bind(Model).GetHtml()
The image below illustrates how the edit form will appear after an end-user clicks the New button.
