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Tracking Changes

The CollectionView class can keep track of changes made to the data. It is useful in situations where you must submit changes to the server. To turn on change tracking, set the TrackChanges property to true. Once you do that, the CollectionView starts tracking the changes made to the data and exposes them using the following:

Make sure that the DisableServerRead property of ItemSource is set to True if filtering, paging, sorting is to be performed on data available at client side only.

The example uses C1NWind data source, for which the configuration in the Quick Start application. The following image shows how the FlexGrid appears after the TrackChanges property is set to true.

Tracking changes made in the grid data

The following code example demonstrates how to initialize a FlexGrid, and keep a track of changes by using TrackChanges property of the CollectionView.

TrackChangesController.cs

C#
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private C1NWindEntities db = new C1NWindEntities();
public ActionResult Index()
{
    return View(db);
}

TrackChanges.cshtml

Razor
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<h5>Change the data here</h5>
@(Html.C1().FlexGrid().Id("tcMainGrid").AutoGenerateColumns(false)
    .AllowAddNew(true).AllowDelete(true)
    .Columns(columns => columns
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryID"))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryName"))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("Description").Width("*")))
    .Bind(ib =>
        ib.Bind(Model.Categories).DisableServerRead(true)
        )
)
<h5>See the changes here</h5>
<h6>Items edited:</h6>
@(Html.C1().FlexGrid().Id("tcEditedGrid").AutoGenerateColumns(false)
    .IsReadOnly(true).Height(100)
    .Columns(columns => columns
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryID").IsReadOnly(true))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryName"))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("Description").Width("*")))
)
<h6>Items added:</h6>
@(Html.C1().FlexGrid().Id("tcAddedGrid").AutoGenerateColumns(false)
    .IsReadOnly(true).Height(100)
    .Columns(columns => columns
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryID").IsReadOnly(true))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryName"))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("Description").Width("*")))
)
<h6>Items removed:</h6>
@(Html.C1().FlexGrid().Id("tcRemovedGrid").AutoGenerateColumns(false)
    .IsReadOnly(true).Height(100)
    .Columns(columns => columns
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryID").IsReadOnly(true))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("CategoryName"))
        .Add(c => c.Binding("Description").Width("*")))
)