Get selected items through all pages

Environment

Product

Telerik WebForms Grid for ASP.NET AJAX

DESCRIPTION

This articles demonstrates how to persist selected rows through rebind operations, such as paging, sorting, filtering, grouping, etc. In addition to that, it gives a clear example how to pass the selected items' ID collection to the server using a HiddenField.

SOLUTION

To achieve the desired result, we can utilze the following code snippet, that stores a reference to each checked row, and then displays all the selected rows ID's when a button is clicked.

When the button is pressed, you can loop through all of the Grid records and execute their custom logic for the selected items, even if the items' count has been modified by filtering, deleting, etc.

<telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="RadAjaxManager1" runat="server">
    <AjaxSettings>
        <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="RadGrid1">
            <UpdatedControls>
                <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="RadGrid1" />
            </UpdatedControls>
        </telerik:AjaxSetting>
        <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="Button1">
            <UpdatedControls>
                <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="RadGrid1" />
                <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="Label1" />
            </UpdatedControls>
        </telerik:AjaxSetting>
    </AjaxSettings>
</telerik:RadAjaxManager>

<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" CellSpacing="0"
    AllowMultiRowSelection="true" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" GridLines="None"
    Width="800px" AllowFilteringByColumn="True" AllowSorting="True">
    <ClientSettings>
        <Selecting AllowRowSelect="True" />
        <ClientEvents OnRowCreated="onRowCreated" OnRowSelected="onRowSelected" OnRowDeselected="onRowDeselected"
            OnGridCreated="gridCreated" />
    </ClientSettings>
    <MasterTableView AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="OrderID"
        ClientDataKeyNames="OrderID">
        <Columns>
            <telerik:GridClientSelectColumn UniqueName="SelectColumn">
            </telerik:GridClientSelectColumn>
            <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="OrderID" DataType="System.Int32" FilterControlAltText="Filter OrderID column"
                HeaderText="OrderID" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="OrderID" UniqueName="OrderID">
            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
            <telerik:GridDateTimeColumn DataField="OrderDate" DataType="System.DateTime" FilterControlAltText="Filter OrderDate column"
                HeaderText="OrderDate" SortExpression="OrderDate" UniqueName="OrderDate">
            </telerik:GridDateTimeColumn>
            <telerik:GridNumericColumn DataField="Freight" DataType="System.Decimal" FilterControlAltText="Filter Freight column"
                HeaderText="Freight" SortExpression="Freight" UniqueName="Freight">
            </telerik:GridNumericColumn>
            <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ShipName" FilterControlAltText="Filter ShipName column"
                HeaderText="ShipName" SortExpression="ShipName" UniqueName="ShipName">
            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
            <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="ShipCountry" FilterControlAltText="Filter ShipCountry column"
                HeaderText="ShipCountry" SortExpression="ShipCountry" UniqueName="ShipCountry">
            </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
        </Columns>
    </MasterTableView>
</telerik:RadGrid>
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWind %>"
    SelectCommand="SELECT [OrderID], [OrderDate], [Freight], [ShipName], [ShipCountry] FROM [Orders]"></asp:SqlDataSource>
<br />
<telerik:RadButton ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Show Selected"
    OnClick="Button1_Click" AutoPostBack="true" OnClientClicked="saveSelected" />
<asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField1" runat="server" Value="" />
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label>

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadGrid1.AllowPaging = false;
    RadGrid1.Rebind();

    HashSet<string> selectedKeys = new HashSet<string>(HiddenField1.Value.Split(new char[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));
    List<string> selectedVisible = new List<string>();

    foreach (GridDataItem dataItem in RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items)
    {
        if (selectedKeys.Contains(dataItem.GetDataKeyValue("OrderID").ToString()))
        {
            selectedVisible.Add(dataItem.GetDataKeyValue("OrderID").ToString());
        }
    }

    Label1.Text = "<b>Currently selected:</b><br/>" + string.Join("<br/>", selectedVisible.ToArray());
    RadGrid1.AllowPaging = true;
    RadGrid1.Rebind();
}

Protected Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    RadGrid1.AllowPaging = False
    RadGrid1.Rebind()

    Dim selectedKeys As New HashSet(Of String)(HiddenField1.Value.Split(New Char() {","c}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries))
    Dim selectedVisible As New List(Of String)()

    For Each dataItem As GridDataItem In RadGrid1.MasterTableView.Items
        If selectedKeys.Contains(dataItem.GetDataKeyValue("OrderID").ToString()) Then
            selectedVisible.Add(dataItem.GetDataKeyValue("OrderID").ToString())
        End If
    Next

    Label1.Text = "<b>Currently selected:</b><br/>" + String.Join("<br/>", selectedVisible.ToArray())
    RadGrid1.AllowPaging = True
    RadGrid1.Rebind()
End Sub

var selected = {};

if (!Object.keys) {
    Object.keys = function (obj) {
        var keys = [], k;
        for (k in obj) {
            if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, k)) {
                keys.push(k);
            }
        }
        return keys;
    };
}

function onRowSelected(sender, args) {
    var orderID = args.getDataKeyValue("OrderID");
    if (!selected[orderID]) {
        selected[orderID] = true;
    }
}

function onRowDeselected(sender, args) {
    var orderID = args.getDataKeyValue("OrderID");
    if (selected[orderID]) {
        delete selected[orderID];
    }
}

function onRowCreated(sender, args) {
    var orderID = args.getDataKeyValue("OrderID");
    if (selected[orderID]) {
        args.get_gridDataItem().set_selected(true);
    }
}

function gridCreated(sender, eventArgs) {
    var masterTable = sender.get_masterTableView(),
        headerCheckBox = $telerik.$(masterTable.HeaderRow).find(":checkbox")[0];

    if (headerCheckBox) {
        headerCheckBox.checked = masterTable.get_selectedItems().length == masterTable.get_dataItems().length;
    }
}

function saveSelected() {
    $get("<%= HiddenField1.ClientID %>").value = Object.keys(selected).join();
}