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Want DropDownList in Column to 'always' display in grid
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I'm setting up a UltraWebGrid.  I got a DropDownList setup in a column.  The DropDownList will only display when I select the cell and try to edit it.  How can I get the DropDownList to display always?

In the UltraWinGrid I would set the

Column.ButtonDisplayStyle = ButtonDisplayStyle.Always; 

How do I accomplish this with an UltraWebGrid?  I tried doing it like this....

 col = gridTransaction.Columns.FromKey("ColumnName");
 col.Header.Caption = "Primary Item Field";
 col.Header.Style.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center;
 col.ServerOnly = false;
 col.Width = Unit.Pixel(110);
 col.Move(3);
 col.Type = Infragistics.WebUI.UltraWebGrid.ColumnType.DropDownList; 
 col.DataType = "System.Int32";
 col.ValueList.DataSource = _dataSet;
 col.ValueList.DataMember = "tablename";
 col.ValueList.DisplayMember = "ColumnName";
 col.ValueList.ValueMember = "ColumnName";
 col.ValueList.DataBind();

This code does exactly what I need, except I want the DropDownList to always display, so I added...

col.CellButtonDisplay = CellButtonDisplay.Always;

But this doesn't seem to have any effect.

What am I missing or how do I get the DropDownList to always appear in the cell?

       

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    You probably found the answer by now, but I post this if others come accross the same problem.

    I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why I couldn't do this.  I had 2 columns that I needed a ValueList for.  Neither would display the text value, but would "stick" once I changed the value in the dropdown.  It seems my value lists didn't understand what TinyInt or Numeric data types were.  Once I changed the database to Int, the value list was happy.

    The lines I ended up using were: 

    grd.Columns(0).

     

    ValueList = vlType
    grd.Columns(0).
    Type = ColumnType.DropDownList

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