AppointmentDataBound and web services

[Mitchell]

Guys,

I previously had my scheduler set up to be the regular way, server side w/ postbacks, and I had a lot of custom functionality built into the AppointmentDataBound function that now doesn't work because I'm running web services binding.

How can I build this functionality with web services binding? It's key to my project working.

Even my Category resource list is managed via the database, so I can't use the static resource coloring feature.

Thoughts?

protected void radAppointments_AppointmentDataBound(object sender, SchedulerEventArgs e) {
        if (e.Appointment.Resources.GetResourceByType("Category") != null) {
            bvAppointmentCategory c = new bvAppointmentCategory(int.Parse(e.Appointment.Resources.GetResourceByType("Category").Key.ToString()));
            e.Appointment.CssClass = c.CssClass;
        }

        if (e.Appointment.ID != null) {
            bvAppointmentDoctor a;

            if (e.Appointment.RecurrenceParentID == null) {
                a = new bvAppointmentDoctor(int.Parse(e.Appointment.ID.ToString()));
            } else {
                a = new bvAppointmentDoctor(int.Parse(e.Appointment.RecurrenceParentID.ToString()));
            }

            String subject = e.Appointment.Subject;
            String client_name = "";
            String pet_name = "";
            String confirmed = "";

            if (a.ClientID != null) {
                bvClient client = new bvClient(a.ClientID.Value);
                client_name = " w/ " + client.PrimaryFirstName + " " + client.PrimaryLastName + " @ " + client.PrimaryPhoneHome;
            }

            if (a.PetID != null) {
                bvPet p = new bvPet(a.PetID.Value);
                pet_name = " (" + p.Name + ")";
            }

            if (e.Appointment.RecurrenceState == 0) {
                if (a.Confirmed) {
                    confirmed = " Confirmed? - [X]";
                } else {
                    confirmed = " Confirmed? - [ ]";
                }
            }

            e.Appointment.Subject = subject + client_name + pet_name + confirmed;
        }

        if (c_security_level < 2) {
            e.Appointment.AllowDelete = false;
        }
    }

[Peter]

Hello Mitchell,

You can use OnClientAppointmentDataBound and the Client API. For example:

function OnClientAppointmentDataBound(sender, args) {
          args.get_appointment().set_backColor("red");
      }

All the best, Peter
the Telerik team

[Mitchell]

Peter,

I would need more detail. If you look at the code I provided, you'll see I'm accessing the appointment database object and doing a lot of manipulation to it. Even in getting the category color, I access the category database object. Is there a solution for this?

[Mitchell]

*bump*

If anyone could please offer any advice on my response, it'd be greatly appreciated. We're at a standstill right now :(

[Peter]

Hello Mitchell,

I recommend  you store the value of the appointment's color in a custom attribute and then use it to set the BackColor property in OnClientAppointmentDataBound. You can download a working sample from here and test the functionality.

Best wishes, Peter
the Telerik team