Dynamically modify RadTreeNode's ContextMenu?

[Nick]

Hi,

I have a RadTreeView which has a context menu defined in the aspx page.  The nodes are loaded from an xml file.

Is there any way I can enable/disable context menu items dependant on the attributes of each individual treenode?  I.E. some of the nodes will be marked as uneditable so I would like to disable that item in that node's context menu.

XML Source:

	<Tree>
	<Node Text="Front Page" Value="" ContextMenuID="rtvcmFrontPage"/>
	<Node Text="Section One" Value="1" ContextMenuID="rtvcmSection" />
	<Node Text="Section Two" Value="2" ContextMenuID="rtvcmSection" CanDelete="False" CanEdit="False" />
	<Node Text="Section Three" Value="3" ContextMenuID="rtvcmSection" />
	<Node Text="Section Four" Value="4" ContextMenuID="rtvcmSection" CanDelete="False" />
	<Node Text="Section Five" Value="5" ContextMenuID="rtvcmSection" />
	</Tree>

TreeeView declaration:

	<telerik:RadTreeView ID="rtvSections" runat="server"
	OnClientNodeClicked="ClientNodeClicked"
	OnClientContextMenuItemClicking="ClientContextMenuItemClicking">
	<ExpandAnimation Duration="200" />
	<CollapseAnimation Duration="200" Type="OutQuint" />
	<ContextMenus>
	<telerik:RadTreeViewContextMenu ID="rtvcmSection" runat="server">
	<Items>
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Insert Section">
	<Items>
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Before" Value="InsertSectionBefore" />
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="After" Value="InsertSectionAfter" />
	</Items>
	</telerik:RadMenuItem>
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Edit Section" Value="EditSection" />
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Delete Section" Value="DeleteSection" />
	<telerik:RadMenuItem IsSeparator="true" />
	<telerik:RadMenuItem Text="New Item" Value="NewItem" />
	</Items>
	</telerik:RadTreeViewContextMenu>
	</ContextMenus>
	</telerik:RadTreeView>

Is there anyway I can do this or am I going to have to dynamically create a context menu for every node that requires a non-standard menu?

Cheers,
Nick

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello Nick,

You can subscribe to the OnClientContextMenuShowing event of the treeview and cancel it depending on the attribute of the node.

All the best,
Veselin Vasilev
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[Nick]

Sorry, I'm not sure I've explained myself well enough  :S

I still want to show a context menu for every node, but for some nodes I may want to disable one of the RadMenuItems in the context menu, dependant on the attributes of the node.

For example if the node has a CanDelete attribute with a value of false, I want the "Delete Section" item in the context menu to be disabled when the menu is shown.

Does that make more sense?

Thanks,
Nick

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hi Nick,

I understand now. So, in the OnClientContextMenuShowing you can use the client-side API of the RadContextMenu object to disable the item:

function ClientContextMenuShowing(sender, eventArgs)
{
 var node = eventArgs.get_node();
 var menu = eventArgs.get_menu();

 if (node.get_getAttributes().getAttrubute("canDelete") == "false")
  {
      menu.findItemByName("Delete").disable();
  }
}

Sincerely yours,
Veselin Vasilev
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[Nick]

Excellent, that's just what I'm looking for!

Thanks Veselin   :D