[Solved] Find a radeditor inside a EditItemTemplate

[SonicImaging]

Hi,  im having trouble finding my radeditor inside a EditItemTemplate.  I get the Object reference not set to an instance of an object.  I am trying to change the ViewPaths inside the imagemanager during Item.  Am I missing something?

   protected void RG1_ItemCreated(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
        {
            GridEditableItem item = e.Item as GridEditableItem;

            RadEditor theEditor = item["mainContent"].Controls[0] as RadEditor;
            theEditor.ImageManager.ViewPaths[0] = "~/SIsites/ClientFiles/ClientUploads/Images/";
            theEditor.ImageManager.UploadPaths[0] = "~/SIsites/ClientFiles/ClientUploads/Images/";
            theEditor.ImageManager.DeletePaths[0] = "~/SIsites/ClientFiles/ClientUploads/Images/";
        }


    }

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn DataField="mainContent" HeaderText="Main Content" SortExpression="mainContent"
                    UniqueName="mainContent" Display="false">
                    <EditItemTemplate>
                        <telerik:RadEditor ID="RE1" runat="server" Content='<%# Bind("mainContent") %>' ToolsFile="~/SIadmin/editors/ToolsFile.xml"
                            Height="200px" Width="600px" Skin="Telerik">
                        </telerik:RadEditor>
                    </EditItemTemplate>
                </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

[SonicImaging]

I figured it out and ended up doing it on the ItemDataBound.

It works great but is this the best pace to set Editor attributes at runtime in the ItemDataBound? 

protected void RG1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
        {
            GridEditableItem item = e.Item as GridEditableItem;

            // RE1 = the radeditor in the EditItemTemplate
            RadEditor theEditor = item.FindControl("RE1") as RadEditor;
            string[] imagepath = { "~/images/" };
            theEditor.ImageManager.ViewPaths = imagepath;
            theEditor.ImageManager.UploadPaths = imagepath;
            theEditor.ImageManager.DeletePaths = imagepath;
        }
    }

[Sebastian]

Hi Keith,

The best place to set dynamically RadEditor properties when the control is used inside edit template of template column is the ItemCreated event (since it is raised on each postback request while ItemDataBound is fired when the grid is bound to data):

http://www.telerik.com/help/radcontrols/prometheus/?grdEventSequence.html

The main differences between the ItemCreated/ItemDataBound events are outlined here.

Best regards,
Stephen
the Telerik team

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