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Auto Generated Columns in JavaScript (ES5) Grid control

08 May 2023 / 3 minutes to read

The columns are automatically generated when columns declaration is empty or undefined while initializing the grid. All the columns in the dataSource are bound as grid columns.

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index.js
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var data = [
    { OrderID: 10248, CustomerID: 'VINET', EmployeeID: 5 },
    { OrderID: 10249, CustomerID: 'TOMSP', EmployeeID: 6 },
    { OrderID: 10250, CustomerID: 'HANAR', EmployeeID: 4 }];

var grid = new ej.grids.Grid ({
    dataSource: data
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Grid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Grid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <script id="rowtemplate" type="text/x-template">
    <tr>
        <td class="photo">
            <img src="${EmployeeID}.png" alt="${EmployeeID}" />
        </td>
        <td class="details">
            <table class="CardTable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2">
                <colgroup>
                    <col width="50%">
                    <col width="50%">
                </colgroup>
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">First Name </td>
                        <td>${FirstName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Last Name</td>
                        <td>${LastName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Title
                        </td>

                        <td>${Title}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Country
                        </td>
                        <td>${Country}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </td>
     </tr>
    </script>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="Grid"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

When columns are auto-generated, the column type will be determined from the first record of the dataSource.

Set isPrimaryKey for auto generated columns when editing is enabled

Primary key can be defined in the declaration of column object of the grid. When we didn’t declare the columns, the grid will generate the columns automatically. For these auto generated columns, you can set isPrimaryKey column property as true by any one of the following two ways,

If Primary key “column index” is known then refer the following code example

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import { Grid, Edit } from '@syncfusion/ej2-grids';

Grid.Inject(Edit);

let data: Object[] = [
    { OrderID: 10248, CustomerID: 'VINET', EmployeeID: 5 },
    { OrderID: 10249, CustomerID: 'TOMSP', EmployeeID: 6 },
    { OrderID: 10250, CustomerID: 'HANAR', EmployeeID: 4 }];

let grid: Grid = new Grid ({
    dataSource: data,
    editSettings: { allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true, allowDeleting: true }
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

grid.dataBound = () => {
    var column: Column = grid.columns[0];
    column.isPrimaryKey = 'true';
}

If Primary key “column fieldname” is known then refer the following code example

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import { Grid, Edit } from '@syncfusion/ej2-grids';

Grid.Inject(Edit);

let data: Object[] = [
    { OrderID: 10248, CustomerID: 'VINET', EmployeeID: 5 },
    { OrderID: 10249, CustomerID: 'TOMSP', EmployeeID: 6 },
    { OrderID: 10250, CustomerID: 'HANAR', EmployeeID: 4 }];

let grid: Grid = new Grid ({
    dataSource: data,
    editSettings: { allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true, allowDeleting: true }
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

grid.dataBound = () => {
    var column: Column = grid.getColumnByField('OrderID');
    column.isPrimaryKey = 'true';
}

Set column options to auto generated columns

You can set column options such as format, width to the auto generated columns by using dataBound event of the grid.

In the below example, width is set for OrderID column, date type is set for OrderDate column and numeric type is set for Freight column.

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var data = [
            { OrderID: 10248, CustomerID: 'VINET', Freight: 32.3800, OrderDate: "1996-07-02T00:00:00.000Z" },
            { OrderID: 10249, CustomerID: 'TOMSP', Freight: 32.3800, OrderDate: "1996-07-19T00:00:00.000Z" },
            { OrderID: 10250, CustomerID: 'HANAR', Freight: 32.3800, OrderDate: "1996-07-22T00:00:00.000Z" }];

var grid = new ej.grids.Grid ({
    dataSource: data,
    dataBound: dataBound
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

function dataBound(args) {
        for (var i = 0; i < this.columns.length; i++) {
            this.columns[0].width = 120;
            if(this.columns[i].field === "OrderDate"){
                this.columns[i].type="date";
            }
            if (this.columns[i].type === "date") {
                this.columns[i].format = { type: "date", format: "dd/MM/yyyy" };
            }
            this.columns[2].format = "P2";
        }
        this.refreshColumns();
    }
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>EJ2 Grid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Grid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <script id="rowtemplate" type="text/x-template">
    <tr>
        <td class="photo">
            <img src="${EmployeeID}.png" alt="${EmployeeID}" />
        </td>
        <td class="details">
            <table class="CardTable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2">
                <colgroup>
                    <col width="50%">
                    <col width="50%">
                </colgroup>
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">First Name </td>
                        <td>${FirstName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Last Name</td>
                        <td>${LastName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Title
                        </td>

                        <td>${Title}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Country
                        </td>
                        <td>${Country}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </td>
     </tr>
    </script>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="Grid"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>
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