As the title suggests, I'm using ag-grid with Angular, and I use a custom class that implements IServerSideDatasource for fetching data from API with rowModelType set to 'serverSide'.
The problem is that when I set headerCheckboxSelection and checkboxSelection to true, checkbox select appears next to each row but it doesn't appear in the Header, whereas it works perfectly fine when I use Client Side Row Model type.
Can anyone help?
Header checkbox selection is not a supported feature of ag-grid's Server Side row model. You should be getting a console log message notifying you of this.
Please see the documentation for more information.
Feature Client-side Infinite Server-side Viewport
...
Row Selection ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Header Checkbox Selection ✔ ✕ ✕ ✕
If you want to implement this functionality, you will need to manually handle this functionality using a custom header component. I've done it before (albeit, using Infinite Row-Model, not Server-side), but you need to keep track of a few things...
I used an Angular Service to keep a central location for tracking all this information, and just relied on the header-component for displaying the checkbox.
As you see, it is a non-trivial task, and there is no easy solution.
As Rich said, Header checkbox selection is supported only in ag-grid's Client-side row model. But you can create your own headerComponent like this:
select-all.component.ts:
import { Component, OnDestroy } from '@angular/core';
import { IHeaderAngularComp } from 'ag-grid-angular';
import { IHeaderParams } from 'ag-grid-community';
@Component({
selector: 'select-all',
templateUrl: './select-all.component.html',
styleUrls: ['./select-all.component.scss']
})
export class SelectAllComponent implements IHeaderAngularComp {
headerName: string;
isChecked: boolean;
isIndeterminate: boolean;
showCheckBox: boolean = true;
sortIcon: string = 'none';
sortSubIcon: string = 'none';
params: any;
agInit(params: IHeaderParams | any): void {
this.params = params;
this.headerName = this.params?.displayName;
this.params.api.addEventListener('selectionChanged', () => {
this.setCheckboxState();
});
this.showCheckBox = this.params?.checkboxSelection;
this.setDefaultSortIcon();
}
toggleSelect(): void {
this.isChecked = !this.isChecked;
if (this.isChecked) {
this.params?.api?.forEachNode((node) => {
node.selectThisNode(true);
});
const event: any = {
type: 'selectionChanged',
api: this.params.api,
columnApi: this.params.columnApi
};
this.params?.api?.eventService?.dispatchEvent(event);
}
else {
this.params.api.deselectAll();
}
}
onSortRequested(event: any): void {
this.setSortIcon();
this.params.progressSort(event.shiftKey);
}
refresh(params: IHeaderParams): boolean {
return false;
}
private setCheckboxState(): void {
this.isIndeterminate = false;
const selectedNodesLength: number = this.params?.api?.getSelectedNodes()?.length;
const renderedNodesLength: number = this.params?.api?.getDisplayedRowCount();
this.isChecked = selectedNodesLength > 0 && selectedNodesLength === renderedNodesLength;
this.isIndeterminate = selectedNodesLength > 0 && !this.isChecked;
}
private setDefaultSortIcon(): void {
this.sortIcon = this.sortSubIcon = 'none';
}
private setSortIcon(): void {
if(this.sortIcon === 'none' || this.sortIcon === 'descending'){
this.sortIcon = 'ascending';
this.sortSubIcon = 'asc';
}
else if(this.sortIcon === 'ascending'){
this.sortIcon = 'descending';
this.sortSubIcon = 'desc';
}
}
}
And in your html file:
select-all.component.html
<mat-checkbox [ngModel]="isChecked"
[indeterminate]="isIndeterminate"
(change)="toggleSelect()">
</mat-checkbox>
<span *ngIf="!params.enableSorting"
[class.with-checkbox]="showCheckBox">
{{ headerName }}
</span>
<div *ngIf="params.enableSorting"
(click)="onSortRequested($event)"
class="ag-cell-label-container">
<div class="ag-header-cell-label">
<span [class.with-checkbox]="showCheckBox"
class="ag-header-cell-text">
{{ headerName }}
</span>
<span [ngClass]="'ag-sort-' + sortIcon + '-icon'"
class="ag-header-icon">
<span class="ag-icon"
[ngClass]="'ag-icon-' + sortSubIcon">
</span>
</span>
</div>
</div>
And in your app.component.ts you need to use this component by frameworkComponents like this:
frameworkComponents: any = {
selectAllComponent: SelectAllComponent,
};
columnDefs = [
{
field: 'make',
checkboxSelection: true,
sortable:true,
headerComponent: 'selectAllComponent',
headerComponentParams: {
checkboxSelection: true,
},
},
...
];
And in your app.component.html file you have something like this:
<mat-checkbox [ngModel]="isChecked"
[indeterminate]="isIndeterminate"
(change)="toggleSelect()">
</mat-checkbox>
<span *ngIf="!params.enableSorting"
[class.with-checkbox]="showCheckBox">
{{ headerName }}
</span>
<div *ngIf="params.enableSorting"
(click)="onSortRequested($event)"
class="ag-cell-label-container">
<div class="ag-header-cell-label">
<span [class.with-checkbox]="showCheckBox"
class="ag-header-cell-text">
{{ headerName }}
</span>
<span [ngClass]="'ag-sort-' + sortIcon + '-icon'"
class="ag-header-icon">
<span class="ag-icon"
[ngClass]="'ag-icon-' + sortSubIcon">
</span>
</span>
</div>
</div>
Here is a working sample that I created from the scratch: StackBlitz
Since [email protected] you can use headerCheckboxSelection: true also in SSRM :)
https://ag-grid.com/javascript-data-grid/server-side-model-selection/#header-checkbox-selection
