The SalesLogix grid control exposes an OnRowSelected event during design time to allow adding code when a row is selected. This functionality allows you to build out additional functionality around selecting a row, other than just bringing up an edit dialog. In doing this you could for instance have a memo next to a grid that displays details of the contents of the selected row. The SalesLogix LAN client has this functionality in several areas, like the Notes and History tab where selecting a history record, shows the notes for that history record to the side in a read only memo.
In order to get the current row reference you can use code like this (This is from a C# Snippet Action Item):
string historyid = grdSystemNotes.SelectedDataKey.Value.ToString();
The line of code above retrieves the rows data key. With that we can then do something like:
Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IHistory notes =
Sage.Platform.EntityFactory.GetRepository<Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IHistory>().Get(historyid) as Sage.Entity.Interfaces.IHistory;
txtNotes.Text = notes.Notes + “”;
This takes the ID retrieved from the previous line of code and then using the Sage EnityFactory, gets a reference to the specific history item the ID refers to. From there it takes the Notes property of the returned entity and sets a memo field with the data.
See this post about important additional information.
