Cell editing in Angular Treegrid component

9 Jan 20234 minutes to read

In Cell edit mode, when you double click on a cell, it is changed to edit state.
You can change the cell value and save to the data source.
To enable Cell edit, set the editSettings.mode as Cell.

app.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { sampleData } from './datasource';
import { EditSettingsModel, ToolbarItems } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-treegrid';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-container',
    template: `<ejs-treegrid [dataSource]='data'  [toolbar]='toolbarOptions' [treeColumnIndex]='1' height='270' [editSettings]='editSettings' childMapping='subtasks' >
        <e-columns>
                    <e-column field='taskID' headerText='Task ID' [isPrimaryKey]='true' textAlign='Right' width=90></e-column>
                    <e-column field='taskName' headerText='Task Name' textAlign='Left' width=180></e-column>
                    <e-column field='priority' headerText='Priority' textAlign='Right' width=90></e-column>
                    <e-column field='startDate' headerText='Start Date' textAlign='Right' format='yMd' type='date' editType='datepickeredit' width=90></e-column>
                    <e-column field='duration' headerText='Duration' textAlign='Right' width=80></e-column>
        </e-columns>
                </ejs-treegrid>`
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

    public data: Object[];
    public editSettings: EditSettingsModel;
    public toolbarOptions: ToolbarItems[];
    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.data = sampleData;
        this.editSettings = { allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true, allowDeleting: true, mode: 'Cell' };
        this.toolbarOptions = ['Add', 'Delete', 'Update', 'Cancel'];
    }
}

app.module.ts

import { NgModule,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { TreeGridModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-treegrid';
import { PageService, SortService, FilterService,EditService,ToolbarService } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-treegrid';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import {ButtonModule} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-buttons';
import { DropDownListAllModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-dropdowns';

/**
 * Module
 */
@NgModule({
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        TreeGridModule,
        ButtonModule,
        DropDownListAllModule,
    ],
    declarations: [AppComponent],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent],
    providers: [PageService,
                SortService,
                FilterService,
                EditService,
                ToolbarService]
})
export class AppModule { }

main.ts

import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

Cell edit mode is the default mode of editing.
The following events are triggered for the cell edit mode.

1. cellEdit event when user begin to edit the cell.
2. cellSave event triggers on saving the cell.
3. cellSaved event triggers after the cell was saved.