Load items in Radcombobox on page load

[Vineet]

Hi,

I am using a radcombobox and populating it using webservice. However the combobox is not loaded when the page loads the first time. when i start typing the combobox gets loaded fine with the values. i want the combobox to contain top 100 rows when the page loads so that by just clicking on the dropdown arrow it can see the option with out typing anything in the box.
Please find my code below:-

<telerik:RadComboBox runat="server" ID="RadComboBox1" Width="300px" Height="550px" AllowCustomText="true" OnClientItemsRequesting="OnClientItemsRequesting"
                EnableLoadOnDemand="true" ShowMoreResultsBox="true" EnableVirtualScrolling="true" MarkFirstMatch="true" ItemsPerRequest="100"
                EnableAutomaticLoadOnDemand="true" AutoPostBack="true">
                <WebServiceSettings Path="~/Controls/ManagerListService.asmx" Method="GetManagerNames" />
            </telerik:RadComboBox>

javascript
function OnClientItemsRequesting(sender, eventArgs) {
        var context = eventArgs.get_context();
    }

web srevice code

 <WebMethod()>
    Public Function GetManagerNames(context As RadComboBoxContext) As RadComboBoxData
        Dim data As DataTable = Employee.LineManagersForUser(context.Text)

        Dim result As New List(Of RadComboBoxItemData)()
        Dim dropDownData As New RadComboBoxData()
        Dim itemOffset As Integer = context.NumberOfItems
        Dim endOffset As Integer = Math.Min(itemOffset + ItemsPerRequest, data.Rows.Count)
        dropDownData.EndOfItems = endOffset = data.Rows.Count

        result = New List(Of RadComboBoxItemData)(endOffset - itemOffset)

        For i As Integer = itemOffset To endOffset - 1
            Dim itemData As New RadComboBoxItemData()
            itemData.Text = data.Rows(i)("Name").ToString()
            itemData.Value = data.Rows(i)("EmplID").ToString()

            result.Add(itemData)
        Next

        dropDownData.Items = result.ToArray()
        Return dropDownData
    End Function


Thanks,
Vineet

[Plamen]

Hi Vineet,

 
Thank you for contacting Telerik support.

You can request the first items on pageLoad as for example it is done in the code below:

<script type="text/javascript">
           function pageLoad() {

               var combo = $find("<%=RadComboBox1.ClientID%>");
               combo.requestItems("");
           }

       </script>

Hope this will work for you. if you have further questions please don't hesitate to contact us again.

Regards,
Plamen
Telerik