News, tips, tricks and more about DevExpress Application Framework (XAF) directly from the lab: The CollectionsEditMode option gets more flexible

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The CollectionsEditMode option gets more flexible

Let me quote myself from the

Layout.Web - provide the capability to manage the display of detail collections, not on the global application level but, for each DetailView separately feature request, which we have just implemented in 13.2, while working on a bigger feature:

"Starting with the version 13.2, you will be able to control this behavior vis-a-vis the DetailView via the CollectionsEditMode property exposed in the Model Editor for Web projects:

 
[XML]
<Views>
    <DetailView Id="Contact_DetailView" CollectionsEditMode="View"></DetailView>
</Views>

The above setting in the XAFML file will enable the View mode only for the Contact DetailView, while the rest application will use the default mode or the one specified in code:

 
[C#]
protected override void OnLoggedOn(LogonEventArgs args) {
            base.OnLoggedOn(args);
            ShowViewStrategy.CollectionsEditMode = ViewEditMode.Edit;
}