Access controls in advanced insert form from the client side to set subject text

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  1. David Harman
    David Harman avatar
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    Member since:
    Oct 2009

    Posted 07 Mar 2013 Link to this post

    Hi,

    I have a RadScheduler control which is bound to appointments client side via a web service. I have defaulted the control to open the advanced insert/edit form when inserting/updating appointments. I would like to be able to pre-set the text in the subject text box when inserting a new appointment. I have hooked up to the OnClientFormCreated event and tried access the controls from javascript and set the text. I have tried the following:

    var subjectJQueryObj = $telerik.$("[id$='Subject']");
    var subjectBox = document.getElementById(subjectJQueryObj.attr('id'));
    subjectBox.value = "hello";
     and also:
    var subjectJQueryObj = $telerik.$("[id$='Subject']");
    var subjectRadTextBox = $find(subjectJQueryObj.attr("id"));
    subjectRadTextBox.set_value("hello");

    Occasionally when I place an alert after these pieces of code I can see the text in the text box but once the function completes it is removed and left with a blank text box.

    Can this functionality be achieved? Any help much appreciated.

    Thanks

    David
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  3. David Harman
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    Member since:
    Oct 2009

    Posted 08 Mar 2013 Link to this post

    I think I have found the solution to my original question. By getting the appointment passed to the OnClientFormCreated event handler I can then update the subject message - this is then populated into the edit/insert form.

    var appt = args.get_appointment();
    appt.set_subject("subject text here");

    I have an additional but related problem I am still struggling to solve. I have several resources associated with each appointment and I would like to set a few by default when an appointment is being inserted. I was hoping to use the appointment object as above to set resources for when a new appointment is being created however I can't find any information on how to create a resource object in javascript to be able to add to the appointment object.

    Again any help would be much appreciated.

    Regards

    David
  5. David Harman
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    Member since:
    Oct 2009

    Posted 08 Mar 2013 Link to this post

    I have now found how to do this too. I pass all the resources to the RadScheduler control on the server side during the initial load. In the OnClientFormCreated event handler I can retrieve the resources. I can then loop through each resource until I find the one I wish to use and then add it to the resource collection for the appointment object.

    var resources = sender.get_resources().getResourcesByType("ReourceType");
    var chosenResource;
     
    resources.forEach(function (res)
    {
        if (res.get_text() == "ResourceText")
        {
            chosenResource = res;
        }
    });
     
    var appt = args.get_appointment();
    appt.get_resources().add(chosenResource);

    Hope the above will be of use to someone at sometime. I spent hours last night trying to sort this. A few hours break away from it and it all seems so clear now!!

    Regards

    David
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