Spread for ASP.NET 8.0 Product Documentation > Developer's Guide > Managing Data Binding > Displaying Data as a Hierarchy |
You can display relational data, such as from a relational database, on a sheet in hierarchies. The following figure shows an example of how you can display the data from the database provided for the tutorials.
To set up hierarchical data display, you first create a data set to hold the relational data, then define the relations between the data, and finally, set the component to display the data as you want. This is the procedure described in the examples that follow.
Properties such as EditModePermanent and EditModeReplace only apply to the parent Spread and do not apply to the child sheets unless you set them in the ChildViewCreated event.
This example binds the component to a data set that contains multiple related tables from a database and sets up the component to display the data in hierarchies. This example uses the database provided for the tutorials (databind.mdb). If you performed the default installation, the database file is in \Program Files\GrapeCity\Spread Studio 8\docs\Windows Forms\TutorialFiles. This assumes that before this code you have an include statement:
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Imports System.Data.OleDb
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Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load If IsPostBack Then Return End If ' Call subroutines to set up data and format the Spread component InitData() FormatSpread() End Sub Private Sub InitData() Dim con As New OleDbConnection() Dim cmd As New OleDbCommand() Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter() Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet() Dim dt As System.Data.DataTable con.ConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=C:\\Program Files\GrapeCity\Spread Studio 8\Windows Forms\TutorialFiles\databind.mdb" con.Open() With cmd .Connection = con .CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.TableDirect .CommandText = "Categories" End With da.SelectCommand = cmd da.Fill(ds, "Categories") cmd.CommandText = "Products" da.SelectCommand = cmd da.Fill(ds, "Products") cmd.CommandText = "Inventory Transactions" da.SelectCommand = cmd da.Fill(ds, "Inventory Transactions") ds.Relations.Add("Root", ds.Tables("Categories").Columns("CategoryID"), ds.Tables("Products").Columns("CategoryID")) ds.Relations.Add("Secondary", ds.Tables("Products").Columns("ProductID"), ds.Tables("Inventory Transactions").Columns("TransactionID")) FpSpread1.DataSource = ds End Sub Private Sub FormatSpread() With FpSpread1.Sheets(0) .ColumnHeader.Rows(0).Height = 30 .Columns(0).Visible = False .Columns(0).Width = 200 End With End Sub Protected Sub FpSpread1_ChildViewCreated(sender As Object, e As FarPoint.Web.Spread.CreateChildViewEventArgs) Handles FpSpread1.ChildViewCreated Dim dateType As New FarPoint.Web.Spread.DateTimeCellType() If e.SheetView.RelationName = "Root" Then With e.SheetView .DataAutoCellTypes = False .ColumnHeader.Rows(0).Height = 30 .Columns(0).Visible = False .Columns(3).Visible = False .Columns(4).Visible = False .Columns(1).Width = 200 .Columns(2).Width = 185 .Columns(6).Width = 85 .Columns(7).Width = 80 .Columns(8).Width = 80 .Columns(5).CellType = New FarPoint.Web.Spread.CurrencyCellType() .Columns(7).CellType = New FarPoint.Web.Spread.CheckBoxCellType() End With Else With e.SheetView .DataAutoCellTypes = False .ColumnHeader.Rows(0).Height = 30 .Columns(0).Visible = False .Columns(2).Visible = False .Columns(3).Visible = False .Columns(4).Visible = False .Columns(7).Visible = False .Columns(8).Visible = False .Columns(9).Visible = False .Columns(1).Width = 100 .Columns(6).Width = 80 .Columns(5).CellType = New FarPoint.Web.Spread.CurrencyCellType() .Columns(1).CellType = dateType 'Add a total column .ColumnCount = .ColumnCount + 1 .ColumnHeader.Cells(0, .ColumnCount - 1).Value = "Total" .Columns(.ColumnCount - 1).CellType = New FarPoint.Web.Spread.CurrencyCellType() .Columns(.ColumnCount - 1).Formula = "F1*G1" End With End If End Sub |