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Grid View Toolbars

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The DevExpress ASPxGridView control enables you to group the most important or frequently used grid commands and display them in customizable toolbars for efficient user access.

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See Online Demo: Toolbar

Note

The ASPxGridBase.KeyFieldName property should be specified when using the following grid features:

  • Edit data
  • Add new and delete existing data item
  • Select data item
  • Master-detail view
  • Endless paging

#Toolbar Object

The ASPxGridView stores toolbars in its ASPxGridView.Toolbars collection. Each toolbar is a GridViewToolbar class instance. You can add toolbars to and remove them from the collection, and change the following characteristics of individual toolbars:

Toolbar Characteristic         Property Description
Adaptive Behavior GridToolbar.SettingsAdaptivity.Enabled Specifies whether an adaptive behavior is enabled for the toolbar.
Availability GridToolbar.Enabled Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the toolbar is enabled, allowing the toolbar to respond to end-user interactions.
Item Alignment GridToolbar.ItemAlign Gets or sets the toolbar item alignment.
Name GridToolbar.Name Gets or sets the toolbar’s unique identifier name.
Position GridToolbar.Position Gets or sets the toolbar position.
Visibility GridToolbar.Visible Gets or sets a value specifying the visibility of the toolbar.

To populate a toolbar with toolbar items and to have indexed access to them, use the toolbar’s GridViewToolbar.Items property.

#Toolbar Item Object

Toolbar items are instances of the GridViewToolbarItem class. This class is a descendant of the MenuItem class, so it inherits the functionality that makes a toolbar item appear and behave as a menu item.

Toolbar Item Characteristic Property                               Description
Group Separation MenuItem.BeginGroup Gets or sets a value that specifies whether the current menu item starts a group.
Group Name MenuItem.GroupName Gets or sets the name of a logical check group to which the menu item belongs.
Image MenuItem.Image Gets the settings of an image displayed within the menu item.
Name MenuItem.Name Gets or sets the unique identifier name for the current menu item.
Template MenuItem.Template Gets or sets a template used to display the content of the current menu item.
Text MenuItem.Text Gets or sets the text content of the current menu item.
Tooltip MenuItem.ToolTip Gets or sets the current menu item’s tooltip text.

Additionally, you can use the following options explicitly implemented for toolbar items to properly customize their behavior and appearance.

Toolbar Item Characteristic Property Description
Display Mode GridToolbarItem.DisplayMode Gets or sets the display mode of the current toolbar item within the toolbar.
Command to Execute GridViewToolbarItem.Command Gets or sets the name of a command executed when users click a toolbar item.
Child Items GridViewToolbarItem.Items Gets a collection that contains the toolbar items of the current toolbar item. Enables you to create hierarchies of nested toolbar items of unlimited depth.

Depending on the GridViewToolbarItem.Command property setting, a toolbar item either triggers a standard grid command (data item editing, deletion, creation, etc.) or performs a custom action, if required. This action should be implemented programmatically.

#Standard Toolbar Item

To make a toolbar item execute a standard command, set the item’s GridViewToolbarItem.Command property to the desired command name listed in the GridViewToolbarCommand enumeration. A standard toolbar item automatically displays the command-related text and image (optional). When users click a standard toolbar item, the grid executes the corresponding command.

Note

The GridToolbarItem.ClientEnabled and MenuItem.Enabled properties are not in effect for a standard toolbar item.

#Example - How to create standard items

The code snippet below demonstrates how to create two standard toolbar items—for the New and Refresh commands—in the markup.

<dx:ASPxGridView runat="server" ID="Grid" ...>
        ...
        <Toolbars>
            <dx:GridViewToolbar ItemAlign="Right">
                <Items>
                    <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Command="New" />
                    ...
                    <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Command="Refresh" BeginGroup="true" />
                    ...
                </Items>
            </dx:GridViewToolbar>
        </Toolbars>
    </dx:ASPxGridView>

#Custom Toolbar Item

If a toolbar item must perform a custom action, create a new GridViewToolbarItem object and use one of the following implementation options.

In Preview Changes mode, the grid displays the following default command items that allow you to edit data:

GridViewToolbarItem - VisibleInBatchEditPreviewChanges Property

To display a custom toolbar item in this mode, set the item’s VisibleInBatchEditPreviewChanges property to true.

<dx:ASPxGridView runat="server" ID="Grid" ...>
    <Toolbars>
        <dx:GridViewToolbarItem 
            Text="Edit Commands" 
            Command="Custom"
            VisibleInBatchEditPreviewChanges="true" >
            <Items>
                <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Command="New" />
                <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Command="Edit" />
                <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Command="Delete" />
            </Items>
        </dx:GridViewToolbarItem>
    </Toolbars>        
    ...
</dx:ASPxGridView>

Result:

GridViewToolbarItem - VisibleInBatchEditPreviewChanges Property

#Example - How to create custom items (by specifying their names, text and images)

The code below creates a custom ‘Export to’ toolbar item with three sub-items to export the grid data to different formats (PDF, XLSX, and XLS).

<dx:ASPxGridView runat="server" ID="Grid" OnToolbarItemClick="Grid_ToolbarItemClick" ...>
        <Toolbars>
            <dx:GridViewToolbar ItemAlign="Right">
                <Items>
                    ...
                    <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Text="Export to" Image-IconID="actions_download_16x16office2013" BeginGroup="true">
                        <Items>
                            <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Name="CustomExportToPDF" Text="PDF" Image-IconID="export_exporttopdf_16x16office2013" />
                            <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Name="CustomExportToXLS" Text="XLS(DataAware)" Image-IconID="export_exporttoxls_16x16office2013" />
                            <dx:GridViewToolbarItem Name="CustomExportToXLSX" Text="XLSX(WYSIWYG)" Image-IconID="export_exporttoxlsx_16x16office2013" />
                        </Items>
                    </dx:GridViewToolbarItem>
                    ...
                </Items>
            </dx:GridViewToolbar>
        </Toolbars>        
        ...
        <ClientSideEvents ToolbarItemClick="OnToolbarItemClick" />
    </dx:ASPxGridView>

#Example - How to create a custom item (by defining its template)

The following code creates a custom toolbar item with the Template property to imitate the functionality of the grid search panel’s editor:

<dx:ASPxGridView runat="server" ID="Grid" ...>
        <Toolbars>
            <dx:GridViewToolbar ItemAlign="Right">
                <Items>
                    ...
                    <dx:GridViewToolbarItem BeginGroup="true">
                        <Template>
                            <dx:ASPxButtonEdit ID="tbToolbarSearch" runat="server" NullText="Search..." Height="100%">
                                <Buttons>
                                    <dx:SpinButtonExtended Image-IconID="find_find_16x16gray" />
                                </Buttons>
                            </dx:ASPxButtonEdit>
                        </Template>
                    </dx:GridViewToolbarItem>
                </Items>
            </dx:GridViewToolbar>
        </Toolbars>        
        ...
        <SettingsSearchPanel CustomEditorID="tbToolbarSearch" />
        ...
    </dx:ASPxGridView>
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