Drag and Drop between Two TreeViews

[James]

I have a problem which only seems to occur when using the Telerik RAD tree views , instead of the standard WPF treeview control

On a basic level, I have an application that loops through an OLAP cube and returns data to the interface treeview.  The treeview then displays the data in a format like below 

 + Measure
  Measure1
Measure2
Measure 3
Measure 4 etc

I want to be able to drag each individual node (e.g Measure 2 or Measure 3) into another treeview. However when dragging the measures, it drags the whole root (Measure) preventing me from separating the nodes.

Any idea how it could be made possible to drag individual nodes instead of the whole root??


The relevant XAML and XAML.cs is shown below

XAML

 <Telerik:RadTreeView x:Name ="treeCube" IsDragDropEnabled ="True" Margin="250,174,41,158" Background="White" Telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Windows7" ToolTip="Drag" AllowDrop="True">       

        </Telerik:RadTreeView>

        <Telerik:RadTreeView x:Name ="treeCubeTwo" IsDragDropEnabled ="True" Margin="0,174,-491,158" Background="White" Telerik:StyleManager.Theme="Windows7" Width="509" HorizontalAlignment="Right">        

        </Telerik:RadTreeView>

XAML.cs

 private void LoadCube_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

            {

                // get the cube schema

                Helper helper = new Helper("demo01");

                helper.Catalog = "Adventure Works DW 2008R2";

                helper.Cube = "Adventure Works";

                _cube = helper.GetCubeSchema();

                // create an empty parameter set

                _params = new ParameterSet();

                // populate the left-hand treeview with cube schema

                // measures

                TreeViewItem measuresItem = new TreeViewItem();

                measuresItem.Header = "Measures";

                foreach (Measure measure in _cube.Measures)

                {

                    TreeViewItem measureItem = new TreeViewItem();

                    measureItem.Header = measure.Caption;

                    measuresItem.Items.Add(measureItem);

                }

                treeCube.Items.Add(measuresItem);

[Hristo]

Hello James,

You must use the RadTreeViewItem instead TreeViewItem when using the RadTreeView.
Also you  can take a look at following articles:
http://www.telerik.com/help/silverlight/radtreeview-features-drag-and-drop.html .

Best wishes,
Hristo Milyakov
the Telerik team

[James]

Thanks Hristo,

That was quite obvious.
I do have another problem with this project though....

As I am looping through data and bringing it into the tree-view, there doesn't seem to be an effective way of stopping some nodes from being dragged. Ideally I wanted the root node (Measure) to be un-draggable, but the levels below it to be still be draggable.

I did try this using the code below to try and cancel the drag event once the program realised the item was the "Measure" node but only count seemed to be available with this function.

I am hoping there is a simple way to prevent this, as I also have a Dimension node with many levels below that would also need to be made undraggable in the future

        private void radTreeView_PreviewDragStarted(object sender, RadTreeViewDragEventArgs e)

        {

            Collection<Object> draggedItems = e.DraggedItems;

            if (measuresItem.Header.ToString() == "Measures")

            {

                MessageBox.Show("Not Allowed");

e.Handled = true;

            }

                else

            {

            }           

        }

Regards
James

[Hristo]

Hello James,

I'm sending you an example showing how the PreviewDragStarted event can be handled easily. Also the treeview is bound to a ViewModel observable collection. I'm using property of the ViewModel (IsDraggable property of Measure object) to determine whether the object can be dragged or not.

Sincerely yours,
Hristo Milyakov
the Telerik team