GridLookup - Item Template

Select employee (incremental filtering is on):

First Name:	Nancy
Last Name:	Davolio
Birth Date:	12/8/1948
City:	Seattle
Region:	WA

First Name:	Andrew
Last Name:	Fuller
Birth Date:	2/19/1952
City:	Tacoma
Region:	WA

First Name:	Janet
Last Name:	Leverling
Birth Date:	8/30/1963
City:	Kirkland
Region:	WA

First Name:	Margaret
Last Name:	Peacock
Birth Date:	9/19/1937
City:	Redmond
Region:	WA

First Name:	Steven
Last Name:	Buchanan
Birth Date:	3/4/1955
City:	London
Region:

First Name:	Michael
Last Name:	Suyama
Birth Date:	7/2/1963
City:	London
Region:

First Name:	Robert
Last Name:	King
Birth Date:	5/29/1960
City:	London
Region:

First Name:	Laura
Last Name:	Callahan
Birth Date:	1/9/1958
City:	Seattle
Region:	WA

First Name:	Anne
Last Name:	Dodsworth
Birth Date:	1/27/1966
City:	London
Region:

Description

The ASPxGridLookup control exposes the embedded ASPxGridView's powerful data representation functionality including support for templates. So, the ASPxGridLookup provides you with a capability to define templates for different elements of the built-in grid (such as data rows, data cells, etc).

This demo illustrates how the layout of the editor's list items can be modified by creating a template for the dropdown grid's data rows via the Templates.DataRow property. Note that the incremental filtering functionality (enabled via the IncrementalFilteringMode property) works correctly when list item templating is used. In this demo, incremental filtering is performed over the values of the first two data columns defined within the editor's Columns collection - 'First Name' and 'Last Name'. These columns are pointed by the TextFormatString property using indexed placeholders ({0} and {1}) that correspond to column indexes within the Column collection. Thus, the TextFormatString property defines the format for displaying the selected item's value within the edit box ('First Name' 'Last Name') and serves as a column pointer and format designator for the incremental filtering functionality.