How do I programatically put telerik rad grid in "add new" mode on page load

Question

Seems like this should be easy but I must just be missing something... I have a Telerik RadGrid on a page that allows inline editing. How do I programatically put the grid into edit mode to insert a new row into the grid. When the page loads I would like show the existing data and also display 1 empty row that a user can easily type into to add a new record to the table. (I don't want them to have to push the add new button)

Answer 1

What I did when I wanted to do the same with the Telerik grid is to set the MasterTableView.IsItemInserted property of the control to true inside the OnNeedDataSource event handler. I suppose that it should work if you set the property inside the OnDataBound grid handler as well.

Dick

Answer 2

You could try using jQuery to press your add button once the page is ready.

Something along the lines of -

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#addButton").click();
}

Answer 3

Found the answer while back.... updating this in case others need it

RadGrid1.MasterTableView.IsItemInserted = true;
RadGrid1.Rebind();

Answer 4

RefreshGrid(userName, "priority", true, false); RadGrid radGrid = RadGrid1;

        radGrid.MasterTableView.InsertItem(); 

        radGrid.Rebind();