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Enabling AutoPostBackOnFilter causes loading panel to display non-modal

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Luke asked on 17 Aug 2011, 06:51 AM

Hello. I'm noticing that when I set the AutoPostBackOnFilter=true for a column that filtering on that column by pressing the enter key causes display of a non-modal loading panel. The two cases I have observed are:

Case 1 - Incorrect modal behavior when ShowFilterIcon="false" and AutoPostBackOnFilter="true"
Case 2 - Correct modal behavior when ShowFilterIcon="true" and AutoPostBackOnFilter="true"

I am using ASP.NET AJAX controls version 2011.1.519.40 and observed this behavior on the following browsers:

IE 9
Firefox 5.0
Chrome 13.0.782.112 m
Safari 5.0.5

Below is markup, code-behind and a sample data item class that demonstrates the problem. Thank you.

Markup

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

<title>When AutoPostBackOnFilter is on Loading Panel is not modal</title>

</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">

<telerik:RadScriptManager ID="scriptManager" runat="server">

</telerik:RadScriptManager>

<telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="ajaxManager" runat="server" DefaultLoadingPanelID="loading">

<AjaxSettings>

<telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="grid">

<UpdatedControls>

<telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="grid" />

</UpdatedControls>

</telerik:AjaxSetting>

</AjaxSettings>

</telerik:RadAjaxManager>

<telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel ID="loading" runat="server" Skin="Windows7" Transparency="1">

</telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel>

<p>

The setting of ShowFilterIcon along with AutoPostBackOnFilter for grid columns causes inconsistent

behavior of the loading panel modality.

<ul>

<li>

Case 1 - Incorrect modal behavior when ShowFilterIcon="false" and AutoPostBackOnFilter="true"

</li>

<li>

Case 2 - Correct modal behavior when ShowFilterIcon="true" and AutoPostBackOnFilter="true"

</li>

</ul>

</p>

<p>

To have time to observe the behavior, long filter times are simulated by Thread.Sleep() - about 5 seconds - in

code behind.

<br />

<h4>Steps to reproduce the incorrect behavior:</h4>

<ol>

<li>

Enter filter text in the 'Case 1' column.

</li>

<li>

Press enter.

</li>

<li>

Using mouse, click anywhere on the grid. Note that the filter textbox will also recieve focus if clicked.

</li>

<li>

Observe the loading panel disappears, and after 5 or so seconds, the filter operation finishes successfully.

</li>

</ol>

<h4>Steps to observe the correct behavior:</h4>

<ol>

<li>

Enter filter text in the 'Case 2' column

</li>

<li>

Click the filter button.

</li>

<li>

Using mouse, click anywhere on the grid or the filter textbox.

</li>

<li>

Observe the loading panel is modal and does not disappear until completion of the filter process.

</li>

</ol>

</p>

<br />

<telerik:RadGrid ID="grid" runat="server" AllowFilteringByColumn="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False"

AllowPaging="True" Skin="Windows7" OnNeedDataSource="grid_NeedDataSource">

<MasterTableView>

<Columns>

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Id" UniqueName="Id" AllowFiltering="false" HeaderText="Id"/>

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Name" UniqueName="Name" ShowFilterIcon="false"

AutoPostBackOnFilter="true" CurrentFilterFunction="Contains"

HeaderText="Case 1 - Incorrect - Loading panel will not be modal when filtering on this column by pressing the enter key">

</telerik:GridBoundColumn>

<telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="Title" UniqueName="Title" ShowFilterIcon="true"

AutoPostBackOnFilter="true" CurrentFilterFunction="Contains"

HeaderText="Case 2 - Correct - Loading panel will still be modal when filtering on this column by clicking the filter button">

</telerik:GridBoundColumn>

</Columns>

</MasterTableView>

</telerik:RadGrid>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Code-behind

using System;

using System.Linq;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Threading;

using Telerik.Web.UI;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

{

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Thread.Sleep(3000);

if (!this.IsPostBack)

{

this.BuildData();

}

protected void grid_NeedDataSource(object sender, GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e)

{

this.grid.DataSource = this.Data;

}

private List<SampleDataItem> Data

{

get

{

return (List<SampleDataItem>)this.ViewState["Data"];

}

set

{

this.ViewState["Data"] = value;

}

private void BuildData()

{

var query =

from i

in Enumerable.Range(1, 10000)

select new SampleDataItem()

{

Id = i,

Name = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),

Title = Guid.NewGuid().ToString()

};

this.Data = query.ToList();

}

App_Code sample data item class

using System;

[Serializable]

public class SampleDataItem

{

public SampleDataItem()

{

}

public long Id

{

get;

set;

}

public string Name

{

get;

set;

}

public string Title

{

get;

set;

}

1 Answer, 1 is accepted

Accepted

answered on 22 Aug 2011, 03:48 PM

Hi Luke,

Indeed we managed to replicate the described issue and logged it for fixing by our developers. It is caused by a second ajax request being fired which breaks the first one and causes the loading panel to hide which is unexpected behavior.

You can find your Telerik points updated as a token of gratitude for reporting the problem.

In the meantime, you could try showing and hiding the loading panels explicitly in order to avoid the visual confusion.
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/ajax-show-hide-loadingpanel.html

Greetings,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team

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