Merge Data in gridview

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Hello,

I have gridview like

ASP.NET

<asp:GridView ID="gvShowRequests" runat="server" AllowPaging="true" 
    AutoGenerateColumns="false" Width="60%"
    CssClass="gvRows" AllowSorting="false" GridLines="Both" 
    BorderColor="Black" PagerStyle-CssClass="pager"
    OnPageIndexChanging="gvShowRequests_PageIndexChanging" 
    onselectedindexchanged="gvShowRequests_SelectedIndexChanged">
    <RowStyle CssClass="gvRows" />
    <AlternatingRowStyle CssClass="gvRowsalt" />
    <Columns>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Id" Visible="false" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Application" />                                    
        <asp:BoundField DataField="UserName" HeaderText="User Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Type" HeaderText="Request Type" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Status" HeaderText="Request Status" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="Last Name" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="EmployeeID" HeaderText="Employee ID" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="AddedOn" HeaderText="Added On" />
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

What I want is : Display First Name, Last Name and EmployeeID in one column under header Name
How can I do it?

Posted 4-Jan-12 0:42am

tejashri.gandhi

Updated 4-Jan-12 11:22am

Wonde Tadesse

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Solution 3

Please try this code to merge cell of your grid view
i thing it may help you

public static void MergeRows(GridView gridView)
    {
        for (int rowIndex = gridView.Rows.Count - 2; rowIndex >= 0; rowIndex--)
        {
            GridViewRow row = gridView.Rows[rowIndex];
            GridViewRow previousRow = gridView.Rows[rowIndex + 1];

            for (int i = 0; i < row.Cells.Count; i++)
            {
                if (row.Cells[i].Text == previousRow.Cells[i].Text)
                {
                    row.Cells[i].RowSpan = previousRow.Cells[i].RowSpan < 2 ? 2 : 
                                           previousRow.Cells[i].RowSpan + 1;
                    previousRow.Cells[i].Visible = false;
                }
            }
        }
    }

Posted 4-Jan-12 1:35am

K C Behera

Updated 4-Jan-12 2:38am

v2

Solution 4

Try
DataTable.Merge Method [^] which is used to merge the specified DataTable with the current DataTable.

C#

// Merge new data into the modified data.
   table1.Merge(modifiedTable, true);

Posted 4-Jan-12 8:09am

RaviRanjanKr

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uspatel · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-04T00:50:00

Solution 2

change query as

SQL

select id,(fname + '' +lname) as Name from tablename

and now bind as

C#

<asp:boundfield datafield="Name" headertext="Application" sortexpression="Name" xmlns:asp="#unknown" />

Posted 4-Jan-12 0:50am

uspatel

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tejashri.gandhi 4-Jan-12 22:49pm

Thank Uma...This is the simplest and quickest thing I could do..

Sridhar Patnayak · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-04T00:46:00

Solution 1

I think this link will solve your problem.

http://weblogs.asp.net/brijmohan/archive/2011/09/03/rows-and-columns-merging-in-asp-net-gridview-control.aspx[^]

Posted 4-Jan-12 0:46am

Sridhar Patnayak

Updated 4-Jan-12 0:47am

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Prasad_Kulkarni 4-Jan-12 7:15am

good one..