Copy style not working for format

[Kevin]

I am confused.  I have a chart with 10 fields of numbers.  I select one field, go to format, and set the format to currency with zero decimal places.  Next I right click the field and select COPY STYLE.  Then I select the other 9 fields and select PASTE STYLE.  The format of the other 9 fields does not change.  I have tried selecting all the fields and then right clicking, but when I do that the format option is grayed out and unavailable.

I have had a similar experience where pasting the style from one field to another did not change the font size of the second field to match that of the first.  Doesn't COPY STYLE apply to all elements - size, font, color, bold,, etc?

I am not sure if I am doing something wrong, or if possibly something is corrupt in my Visual Studios installation.  It seems like this should work.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Elian]

Hello Kevin,

When using Copy/Paste style only the properties listed under Style will be copied. The Format property is not considered a style property and thus won't be copied along.
If you want to copy the same format - after you have formatted 1 field, simply select the format property from the property grid, copy it's text, then select all the other fields and paste it. 
As to the Copy/Paste style problem you are describing, most probably you have used predefined report template (from the Wizard) and if that is the case, then the elements themselves do not have style - there are global styles which are applied through the StyleName property (see Creating Style Rules). 
 
All the best,
Elian
the Telerik team

[Adrian]

Elian -

If that's the case, then you need to update your tutorials.  The "Extending Simple Report" tut causes friction at step 3 when things don't work as described.

http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/quick-start-class-lib-extending.html 

Nice tool so far btw. Great work! 

[Jaco Hamilton-Attwell]

Hi Kevin

I was struggling with the non-copying style as explained in the "Extending..." document a few minutes ago. Thanks to your question and Elain's answer I was able to determine that, copying the StyleName value and pasting that value in the same property of my un-styled control does all the magic.

Elain, as Adrian mentioned, please ask the author(s) to update the in the documentation.

Regards

[Steve]

Hi guys,

As you can see from the Style Class and its properties, only inline styles are handled via the copy/paste operation. Any global/external style/style name would not be copied via the copy/paste operation and as you have found out, for this purpose you can use the StyleName property.

The part about styling in the help article in question is now outdated as the Report Wizard applies styles via global styles using StyleName now. In older versions of the product, the styling from the Report Wizard was via inline styles - thus the discrepancy you have found, for which we apologize. The help article would be updated accordingly.


@Adrian: thank you for the kind words - much appreciated!

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team