Daily Recurrence/Every Weekday

[Timothy]

I'm trying to implement a custom recurrence dialog. Actually, due to business needs, I'm combining the the appointment dialog with the recurrence dialog. This means that I'm inheriting the EditAppointmentDialog class and so I can't also inherit the EditRecurrenceDialog class (not in VB.NET anyway).

Most of it is going well but I'm confused about something. When I create a recurrence by using the Every Weekday radio button under the Daily radio button a weekly recurrence rule for Monday - Friday with an interval of 1 is created. That makes sense. What I don't understand is why the WeeklyRecurrenceSettings.CanShowRecurrenceRule returns false in this situation. Well, what I don't understand is why your code is written to do that (I've looked at your source code). Since it's a weekly recurrence I can't use the DailyRecurrenceSettings control but since the WeeklyRecurrenceSettings control returns false for CanShowRecurrenceRule I can't use that function.

The recurrence rule should either be interpreted as a daily recurrence or else it should accept WorkDays and Interval = 1 as a valid weekly recurrence.

I'm considering implementing my own WeeklyRecurrenceSettings control but that seems like overkill.

[Timothy]

I worked around this problem by adding to some code I borrowed from Telerik's source code.

I changed this:

For Each pair As KeyValuePair(Of RadRadioButton, IRecurrenceRuleSettingsControl) In Me.radioToSettingsDictionary
    If pair.Value.CanShowRecurrenceRule(Me.RecurrenceRule) Then
        pair.Key.ToggleState = ToggleState.On
        Exit For
    End If
Next

To this:

For Each pair As KeyValuePair(Of RadRadioButton, IRecurrenceRuleSettingsControl) In Me.radioToSettingsDictionary
    If pair.Value.CanShowRecurrenceRule(Me.RecurrenceRule) Then
        pair.Key.ToggleState = ToggleState.On
        If TypeOf pair.Value Is DailyRecurrenceSettings Then
            If Me.RecurrenceRule.Interval = 1 AndAlso TypeOf Me.RecurrenceRule Is WeeklyRecurrenceRule AndAlso CType(Me.RecurrenceRule, WeeklyRecurrenceRule).WeekDays = WeekDays.WorkDays Then
                CType(pair.Value, DailyRecurrenceSettings).radioButtonEveryWeekday.ToggleState = ToggleState.On
            End If
        End If
        Exit For
    End If
Next

I run the above code after I've gotten the recurrence rule in the LoadSettingsFromEvent sub.

It would be nice if the pertinent portion of this code could be added to the DailyRecurrenceSettings.ShowRecurrenceRule sub.

[Anton]

Hi Timothy,

Thank you for writing.

We highly appreciate that you brought this case to our attention. We will investigate the logic in this part of RadScheduler and we will consider your suggestion.

In regards to your workaround, it seems valid and suitable for the case that you described.

Should you have any other questions or feedback, I will be glad to assist you.

Regards,
Anton
Telerik