Bug: Accessing RadPanelItem's ClientID server side

[nismo]

Hello, I have a RadPanelBar that contains a RadPanelItem, similar to the configuration below. Both are assigned IDs with runat=server.

In my code-behind, I am trying to pass the RadPanelItem's clientID to the RadToolTipManager so that the Item will have a nice pretty tooltip on mouse over.

However, passing the RadPanelItem's clientID to the RadToolTipManager does not enable the tooltip -- I found out that the actual RadPanelItem's ClientID is not being assigned correctly -- it appears that the RadPanelItem's ClientID is the same as the RadPanelBar. 

I think this may be a bug, since I am able to pass literally every other control's clientID to the RadTooltipManager successfully, and have the tooltip displayed correctly.

Please advise as to how I can pass the correct RadPanelItem.ClientID to the RadTooltipManager.

ascx code:

<telerik:RadPanelBar width="100%" ID="rdpPanelBar" runat="server" ExpandMode="MultipleExpandedItems">
                <Items>
                    <telerik:RadPanelItem Text="Package" runat="server" Width=100% Value="PackageName" id="rdiPackage">
                        <ContentTemplate>
...
                        </ContentTemplate>
</Items>
                    </telerik:RadPanelItem>
</telerik:RadPanelBar>

code behind (vb net)

Dim item As RadPanelItem = rdpPanelBar.FindItemByValue("Package")

Dim test = rdpPanelBarClientID & "|" & rdiPackage.ClientID

RadToolTipManager1.TargetControls.Add(rdiPackage.ClientID, True)

RadToolTipManager1.Text = test

[nismo]

Forgot to add: using Telerik.Web.UI version 2014.1.225.40, testing in ie8 and latest Chrome.

[nismo]

bump

[Hristo Valyavicharski]

Hi nismo,

This panelbar definition is wrong. There unclosed tags. Please first check this.

Regards,
Hristo Valyavicharski
Telerik

 

 

[nismo]

Hi Hristo,

Apologies that is not the exact code I have, it was just a rough idea -- my code has the proper closed tags. The issue does remain with proper tags.

[Hristo Valyavicharski]

nismo,

Everything seems to be working as expected. Please attach sample project. In the mean time try to put your javascript in a ScriptBlock.

Regards,
Hristo Valyavicharski
Telerik

 

 

[nismo]

Hristo, I figured out the problem. The RadPanelItem does not inherently have a unique client ID property, so I had to manually assign the ID property attribute before passing to the RadTooltipManager.  After doing this, I was able to successfully pass the RadPanelItem to the tooltipManager and the tooltip now properly displays.

Dim item As RadPanelItem = rdpPanelBar.FindItemByValue("PackageName")
        Dim toolTipString = String.Empty
       toolTipString += "whatever tooltip you want"

        item.Attributes("id") = rdpPanelBar.ClientID + "_item"
        RadTooltipManager1.TargetControls.Add(item.Attributes("id"), True)
        RadTooltipManager1.Text = toolTipString