Define a default Control Panel for all my Gridview

[Georges]

  Hello,

I would like to define in a style a default control panel (with a button to export the grid as excel/pdf/etc...) for all my RadGridView, but I can't figure out how to set the ControlPanelItems in a style.
Is this possible ? and if so, how can I do?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Georges,


ControlPanelItems property of the grid is not a dependency property. To be used in XAML mark-up, it must be exposed on the target type with an accessible instance property, ControlPanelItems.
Thinking in this way, it' s not possible to define a style targeted at RadGridView and set ControlPanelItems globally for all grid view elements. 

I recommend you to set these items on particular instance of the grid. 
Hope this helps. 


Regards,
Vanya Pavlova
Telerik

 

 

[Georges]

  Hello,

Thanks for your reply. I found a workaround by writing a behavior (see code below)

public class RadGridViewBehavior
   {
       private const string _ToolTipExportMenu = "Exporter";

       public static readonly DependencyProperty ShowExportMenuProperty =
           DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("ShowExportMenu", typeof(bool), typeof(RadGridViewBehavior), new UIPropertyMetadata(ShowExportMenuChanged));

       public static void SetShowExportMenu(UIElement element, bool value)
       {
           element.SetValue(ShowExportMenuProperty, value);
       }

       public static bool GetShowExportMenu(UIElement element)
       {
           return (bool)element.GetValue(ShowExportMenuProperty);
       }

       private static void ShowExportMenuChanged(DependencyObject target, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
       {
           if (e.NewValue == e.OldValue)
               return;

           RadGridView grid = target as RadGridView;
           if (grid != null)
           {
               bool val = (bool)e.NewValue;
               if (val)
               {
                   ControlPanelItem cp = new ControlPanelItem();
                   object resIcon = Application.Current.TryFindResource("IcoExportSmall");
                   if (resIcon != null)
                   {
                       cp.ButtonContent = resIcon;
                       cp.ButtonTooltip = _ToolTipExportMenu;
                       cp.Content = new GridMenuExporterUC();
                       grid.ControlPanelItems.Add(cp);
                   }
               }
               else
               {
                   var item = grid.ControlPanelItems.FirstOrDefault(c => c.ButtonTooltip == _ToolTipExportMenu);
                   if (item != null)
                       grid.ControlPanelItems.Remove(item);
               }
           }
       }

   }

Regards,

[Georges]

  Hello Vanya,

Thanks for your reply. I found a workaround making a Behavior. see code below :

public class RadGridViewBehavior
   {
       private const string _ToolTipExportMenu = "Exporter";

       public static readonly DependencyProperty ShowExportMenuProperty =
           DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("ShowExportMenu", typeof(bool), typeof(RadGridViewBehavior), new UIPropertyMetadata(ShowExportMenuChanged));

       public static void SetShowExportMenu(UIElement element, bool value)
       {
           element.SetValue(ShowExportMenuProperty, value);
       }

       public static bool GetShowExportMenu(UIElement element)
       {
           return (bool)element.GetValue(ShowExportMenuProperty);
       }

       private static void ShowExportMenuChanged(DependencyObject target, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
       {
           if (e.NewValue == e.OldValue)
               return;

           RadGridView grid = target as RadGridView;
           if (grid != null)
           {
               bool val = (bool)e.NewValue;
               if (val)
               {
                   ControlPanelItem cp = new ControlPanelItem();
                   object resIcon = Application.Current.TryFindResource("IcoExportSmall");
                   if (resIcon != null)
                   {
                       cp.ButtonContent = resIcon;
                       cp.ButtonTooltip = _ToolTipExportMenu;
                       cp.Content = new GridMenuExporterUC();
                       grid.ControlPanelItems.Add(cp);
                   }
               }
               else
               {
                   var item = grid.ControlPanelItems.FirstOrDefault(c => c.ButtonTooltip == _ToolTipExportMenu);
                   if (item != null)
                       grid.ControlPanelItems.Remove(item);
               }
           }
       }

   }

Regards

[Clifford]

First of all I would recommend that there be a way to do this since this is something that would be good to be globally defined. Is there any recommendation on how to at least have some of these elements defined in a central place.

[Yoan]

Hello Clifford,

I am afraid that there is no easy way for achieving this functionality at the moment. However, we will take this into account, while planning our next release.

Regards,
Yoan
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