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• Bennie

  Posted on Mar 2, 2010 (permalink)

  I am using a RadOutlookBar in my application. I have quite a few RadOutlookBarItems, so things are getting crowded. What I would like to do is minimize a number of less-frequently used items (under minimize, I mean that these items would show in the lower area, as a small icon). That way, the Outlook bar would be a bit easier to manage by the user.
  
  I could not find a property on the RadOutlookBarItem to achieve this result. Is there a property I can set to achieve this result?
  
  -Bennie
  

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• Bennie

  Posted on Mar 2, 2010 (permalink)

  As a follow up, there is a Position property on the RadOutlookBarItem class which would be perfect for this, but it is read-only. There is also a "PositionChanged" event, but I see no way to force an item to show in the minimized area upon startup.
  
  - Bennie
  

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• Kiril Stanoev Kiril Stanoev

  Posted on Mar 4, 2010 (permalink)

  Hi Bennie,
  
  Programatically setting the position of an OutlookBarItem is not a supported scenario. That is why the Position property is read-only. If your OutlookBar is bound to an observable collection, you can easily rearrange the items in the collection, thus placing the desired item in the minimized area. I have attached a sample project demonstrating this scenario. Have a look at it and let me know how it works for you.
  
  Sincerely yours,
  Kiril Stanoev
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ronald Evers

  Posted on Apr 13, 2010 (permalink)

  I'm having the same issue. I would like to simulate the way outlook uses it's bar. It basically has the less important items automatically in the minimized area. Your solution works but it also means the user can never get the item back into the big area like in outlook by scrolling the bar up, which is inconvenient. Also there's resizing issues this way. Is there any plan to implement this feature in any future releases?
  

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• Kiril Stanoev Kiril Stanoev

  Posted on Apr 14, 2010 (permalink)

  Hi Ronald,
  
  Thank you for your feedback. I have logged your request in our PITS. You can monitor the progress of the item here. We will try to implement this feature by the end of Q2 2010. Let me know if you have additional questions or comments on the topic.
  
  Greetings,
  Kiril Stanoev
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ronald Evers

  Posted on Apr 14, 2010 (permalink)

  Great, I will keep track of it. No further comments except have a look at Outlook, that shows the perfect way to implement it in my opinion.
  

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• Ken

  Posted on Mar 8, 2011 (permalink)

  Is there any chance that the ability to entirely minimize the OutlookbarItems to the minimized position at startup going to be in the
  2011Q1 release?  We have a number of items in our bar and would like to give the user the ability to minimize all of them at startup
  for resultant panels which need all the space they can get.
  
  Thanks.
  
  

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• Tina Stancheva Tina Stancheva

  Posted on Mar 14, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Ken,
  
  If I understand your scenario correctly, you can set the RadOutlookBar ActiveItemsMaxCount property to 0 thus causing all items to be minimized at startup. You can find more info about that property here. Give it a try and let us know if this is the functionality that you were looking for.
  
  Kind regards,
  Tina Stancheva
  the Telerik team

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• Ken

  Posted on Mar 14, 2011 (permalink)

  Yes, Tina, that will create the intial scenario which some of our customers may want but it disables the ability
  to move the expander bar up to show more items.
  
  The scenario we ultimately hoped was to allow user to slide the expander bar and to remember that setting
  for their next login whether they effectively minimized one, two, three, ..., all of the items.
  
  Seems to me that at present it's all or nothing?  Is this something which might be addressed in the upcoming
  release ?
  
  

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• Tina Stancheva Tina Stancheva

  Posted on Mar 17, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Ken,
  
  Unfortunately this feature didn't make the Q1 release. Also, due to the many pressing tasks on our to-do list,  we cannot bind to a date when this will be implemented. Please keep track of the issue and vote for it thus increasing its priority.
  
  Kind regards,
  Tina Stancheva
  the Telerik team

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