Dropdown Control in Rad Scheduler

[Hammad Pasha]

Hi,
I am using Rad Scheduler for booking a conference room. I have a scenario where user can book conference room for others as well. Now my question is

1. Does Telerik enables us to add control in the Appointment Insert form like a dropdown list to ask user wether he wants to get the room booked for him self or some one other ??
2. Except for Subject I would like to add some more details of the booking that are kept in separate columns in the Data Table such as Meeting Room Booked By, Booked For etc. Is it possible ??
3. The requests sent by users are then sent to the approver to approve, Deny, Or cancel requests. Is there any way to handle these administrative tasks using Scheduler UI ??

Awaiting responses.

Best Regards
Hammad Haneef Pasha

[Peter]

Hello Hammad,

1. You can use resources to allow an appointment to be tagged for a specific person. Here is an online demo for reference:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/scheduler/examples/resources/defaultcs.aspx

The resource dropdown control will be displayed in the advanced form of RadScheduler. To start editing or inserting directly in the advance form, you need to set StartEditingInAdvancedForm and StartInsertingInAdvancedForm to true.

2. You can store additional information about an appointment not only using resources, but also via custom attributes. Simply set CustomAttributeNames="Room, BookedBy, Booked", provided that you have the corresponding fields in the RadScheduler's data source.

3. You can use the AppointmentInsert and AppointmentUpdate server events to send the request for approval.

We will be glad to answer any other questions you might have.


Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

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[Amit]

I want to add Drop Down at run time on RadScheduler form. So is it possible to add number of Drop Down control dynamically at run time.
Please let me know if there is any solution for the same.

Thanx in advance
Amit Thakkar

[Peter]

Hi Amit,

Technically speaking, it is possible, but I am not sure what exactly you need to achieve. If you handle FormCreated, you can add controls to the advanced form like this:

protected void timeBlockRadSchedulerControl_FormCreated(object sender, SchedulerFormCreatedEventArgs e)
   {
       if ((e.Container.Mode == SchedulerFormMode.AdvancedEdit) || (e.Container.Mode == SchedulerFormMode.AdvancedInsert))
       {
           e.Container.Controls.Add(new RadComboBox());
       }
   }

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Amit]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for reply.

Actually I want to add a drop down control dynamically on pressing a button. On clicking the Button , There can be number of drop down controls added on the advance insert template.

am i clear with the description ? or shoud i explore it.?

Kindly revert as soon as possible.

Thanks & Regards
Amit Thakkar

[Peter]

Hello Amit,

For this requirement, it might be better to use the Advanced Templates controls.


Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Amit]

Hi Telerik Admin,

I want to use dropdownlist on advanceinsert template of RadScheduler & on changing the index of the dropdown list, textbox should be visible i.e. I want to use selectedindexchange event of dropdownlist.

So is it possible to track this event with advanceinsert template.?

Also I want to use Reccurence on the same advance insert template. So how can I use reccurence option for the same..?

Kindlt revert as soon as possible.

Thanks & Regards
Amit Thakkar

[Peter]

Hello Amit,

You can attach to SelectedIndexChanged directly in the Resource user control (ResourceControl.ascx).

The recurrence functionality is already provided in the demo I suggested in the previous post. I hope I am not misunderstanding your question.

All the best,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Amit]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for replying.

Actually I am not using DropDown Control in Resource User Control (ResourceControl.ascx). I am using that control on the advanceinsert form in the same aspx file.

I am calling that control through e.container.findControl() & then I am filling dropdown control in FormCeated property.

Now On changing the index of that dropdown control, I need to make one textbox visible and also on changing again, it should be invisible. To achieve this I need to call SelectedIndexChange property. So How should I use this property.?

Here I am giving overview about what I want to achieve.

.aspx file
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<AdvancedInsertTemplate>
                <table>
                                <tr>
                                    <td  colspan="1">
                                        <asp:Label ID="lblSub" runat="server" Text="Subject :"></asp:Label>
                                    </td>
                                    <td colspan="2">
                                        <telerik:RadComboBox Runat="server" ID="rcbSubject" AutoPostBack="true" OnSelectedIndexChange=" rcbSubject_SelectedIndexChanged">
                </telerik:RadComboBox>
                                    </td>
                                   
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td colspan="3"><br /></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                    <td colspan="1">
                                        <asp:Label ID="lblSubject" runat="server" Text="Specify Subject :" visible="false"></asp:Label>
                                    </td>
                                    <td colspan="2">
                                        <telerik:RadTextBox ID="TitleTextBox" tabindex="1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("Subject") %>' 
                                        TextMode="MultiLine" visible="false"></telerik:RadTextBox>
                                    </td>
                                  
                                </tr>
                </table>
<AdvancedInsertTemplate>

.cs file
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protected void RadScheduler_FormCreated(object sender, AppointmentFormCreatedEventArgs e)
{
    RadTextBox rtbSub = (RadTextBox)e.container.FindControl("TitleTextBox");

    RadComboBox rcbSubject = (RadComboBox)e.container.findControl("rcbSubject");
    //Here I am filling ComboBox from SQL Database
}


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Now There is one data in DropDownList i.e. "Other". On selecting "Other" , TitleTextBox should be set to visible to true.
& on selecting any other value except "Other", TitleTextBox should be set to visible to false.

So How do I use SelectedIndexChange as it wont accept the name "rtbSub" in
protected void rcbSubject_SelectedIndexChanged(object o, RadComboBoxSelectedIndexChangedEventArgs e) {  }.

I Hope, I am more clear to you than before. Let me know if there is any soltion for the same asap..

Thanks & Regards 
Amit Thakkar

[Peter]

Hello Amit,

Please, try the approach from this forum post.

Basically the idea is to find the appContainer in SelectedIndexChanged from the parent of the combobox:

SchedulerAppointmentContainer appContainer = (SchedulerAppointmentContainer)ComboBox.Parent;
Appointment appointment = appContainer.Appointment;



Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team