[Solved] Dragging vs Inline vs Advanced Editting

[James Legan]

I am handling appointment updates server-side with OnAppointmentUpdate.

I have run into a situation where I need to programatically handle the update differently whether the user drag and moved/extended the appointment vs updating it from the advanced form. Is there a mechnism in the control to tell where the update was initiated, possibly keying off of the button, etc...?

Thanks,

Jim

[James Legan]

In the interim (in case anyone else is looking for a solution), I set an onclick event to my advanced edit form button to set a bool in the viewstate and key off of that. However, if the control has a way to do that natively I would prefer it.

[Peter]

Hi James,

I was tempted to suggest you compare the End time of the original and modified appointment:

protected void RadScheduler1_AppointmentUpdate(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.AppointmentUpdateEventArgs e)
   {
       if (DateTime.Compare(e.Appointment.End, e.ModifiedAppointment.End) == 0)
       {
           Response.Write("Appointment was updated through the advanced edit form");
       }
       else
       {
           Response.Write("appointment was updated through drag or resize");
       }
   }

But, this will fail if the user opens the advanced edit form and changes the end time. 

A safer approach is to check if the advanced form was opened at all, but then this will require using a view state or a hidden field to keep track if the event occured:

protected void RadScheduler1_FormCreated(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.SchedulerFormCreatedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Container.Mode == Telerik.Web.UI.SchedulerFormMode.AdvancedEdit)
        {
            ViewState["AdvancedEditMode"] = "true";
        }
    }

 

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

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[James Legan]

Peter,

The ViewState is the route I went before I read your post. However, I attached to ViewState update to the "OK" button in the Advanced Form dialog. This avoids having to handle the user cancelling out of the UI.

Thanks,

Jim