Commentary Editor

[Jeff Kershner]

I am using VS2010 with the latest Telerik controls for asp.net AJAX with ASP.NET 4.0.

I have a business intelligence application that needs to have a customer insert commentary into a report.  Currently we are using AJAX contol toolkit's Modal Popup Extender with Winthusiasm for the WYSIWYG editor.

We would like to replace all controls with Telerik controls.  I was thinking about some kind of modal dialog with a good looking editor.  I am open to other suggestions.

Can anyone point me to a control or two that would help me accomplish what I need.

Thanks,
--jeff

[Marin Bratanov]

Hi Jeff,

You can use RadWindow for the modal popup container and in it RadEditor as the WYSIWYG editor. They both offer great modification potential and a rich client-side and server-side API.

For your convenience I have attached a simple page illustrating the basic approach. Note that the overall look and feel can be modified via skins and toolbar customizations.

For more information on the available functionality take a look at the Online demos:
Editor First Look Demo
Window First Look Demo
and the Online Documentation:
Editor Overview
Window Overview

Greetings,
Marin
the Telerik team

[Jeff Kershner]

Excellent; this looks promising.  When I try to run your EditorInWindow.aspx page, I get an error saying:
Compiler Error Message: CS0103: The name 'RadEditor1' does not exist in the current context

It seems that the AJAX $find can't find the RadEditor1 contorl inside the ContentTemplate of the RadWindow.

Do you know how i can fix this?

Thanks,
--Jeff

[Dobromir]

Hi Jeff,

I tested the sample page provided by Martin and it working as expected. For your convenience I have prepared a video demonstrating my test.
http://screencast.com/t/6LBRCIglKT

Have you applied any modifications to the page? If so, could you please provide the modified page where the problem occur so we can investigate it further?

In addition, if you tried to load external page containing RadEditor inside RadWindow (using NavigateUrl property of the window the JavaScript function refreshEditor() might cause this error because no instance of RadEditor is present on the page.

Kind regards,
Dobromir
the Telerik team

[Jeff Kershner]

Looks like for some reason I was using the 2009 version of the Telerik dlls.  As soon as I upgraded, everything worked.

Thanks for the great help!