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Configuring Editing Behavior (xamDataPresenter)

Topic Overview

Purpose

This topic explains how to customize the control’s editing behavior.

Required background

The following topics are prerequisites to understanding this topic:

Topic Purpose

This is a group of topics providing an overview of the xamDataPresenter control.

Editing Configuration Summary

Editing configuration summary

The data presenter family of controls allows you to configure some aspects of the editing behavior such as:

  • allowing the user to edit cell values

  • allowing the user to enter cell’s editing mode by start typing when a cell is active

Editing configuration summary chart

The following table explains briefly the configurable aspects of the xamDataPresenter’s editing feature and maps them to the properties that configure them. These properties are available at the FieldSettings object of the control.

Configurable Aspect Details Properties

Enable / disable cell’s editing

By default the editing mode is enabled, but you can disable it by setting this property to false.

Note
Note

Editing will not be possible if the control is bound to a data source which does not support editing.

Enter cell’s editing mode on keypress

You can allow the user to enter editing mode automatically when a cell is activated and the user enters text or presses the space or backspace keys.

The following topics provide additional information related to this topic.

Topic Purpose

This is a group of topics explaining how to define and customize field editors in the xamDataPresenter.