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Design Time

Smart Tag

The RadTreeList Smart Tag provides convenient access to the most common settings of the control. You can display the Smart Tag by right clicking on theRadTreeList in the design window, and choosing the "Show Smart Tag" option from its context menu. Smart tag

Configure Data Source

You can easily configure declarative data source by choosing Configure Data Source link from the Smart Tag of the RadTreeList control: Configure Data Source

Open Configuration Wizard

Open Configuration Wizard link displays RadTreeList wizard with General settings which lets you customize/configure the RadTreeList control. Open editor

The General section allows you to set data source for the treelist control. You need to set the DataKeyNames and ParentDataKeyNames properties. The ParentDataKeyNames property will be used for setting the proper relation. RadTreeList General settings

The Paging section of the Telerik RadTreeList WizardForm lets you specify whether your treelist will use pages and the specific paging options. RadTreeList Paging

The Styles sectionlets you fully customize the appearance of Telerik RadTreeList. Here you can set the colors for the treelist elements, the style for the strings and the element alignment RadTreeList Styles

The Client Settings section allows you to enable client functionalities such as selecting and scrolling and also attach RadTreeList client events. RadTreeList Client settings

The Sorting section lets you select the type of sorting that RadTreeList will apply. In addition you can set the text of the tooltips that will appear when hovering over the header item. treelist designtime 8

The Validation section lets you specify whether to allow validation. You can also set validation groups and specific events that will trigger the validation. treelist designtime 9

The Edit Form Settings section allows you to select the edit form type. Also you can configure different caption settings or set a path to the user control file if you are using a WebUserControl. treelist designtime 10

The Export Settings section provides an easy way to configure RadTreeList for exporting. treelist designtime 11

Edit Columns

The Edit Columns option allows you to set the way columns are generated and visualized. Choose columns

RadTreeListColumn Collection Editor will let you display only specific data fields from a given database. Moreover, you can define custom properties for the columns that present these fields. You can use the Add button to create different columns in the treelist. The columns will appear in the "Selected Columns" list. You can use the Up and Down buttons to re-order the columns and the Remove button to remove a column from this list. From the "Members" list choose the columns which you want to bind (display). RadTreeListColumn Collection Editor

Ajax Resources

  • Add RadAjaxManager...- adds a RadAjaxManager component to your Web page and displays the RadAjaxManager Property Builder where you can configure it.

  • Replace ScriptManager with RadScriptManager - replaces the default ScriptManager component that is added for AJAX-enabled Web sites with RadScriptManager.

  • Add RadStyleSheetManager - adds a RadStyleSheetManager to your Web page.

Learning Center

Links navigate you directly to RadTreeList examples, help, or code libraries. You can also search the Telerik web site for a given string.

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