How to remember window state

[Himadri Banerjee]

I have a Control Panel with RadWindow Manager on a .ascx Control. This control is part of every page where users can open some pages within a RadWindow. The Windows are non modal. Once I travel from one page to another in the main window I want to keep the windows that users have opened in one page to have them opened in the page they went. Can you please guide me on this.

For example I am in my Home Page and I opened a Window with Tasks from my Control Panel. Now I navigate away from my Home Page and go to another page. I have the Control Panel in that page also but now I want to keep the Task Page open on Page Load so it looks seemless but if the window was closed or not open to begin with I don't want to open the Window.

Thanks

Himadri

[Svetlina Anati]

Hello Himadri,

We are planning to implement such preserving state functionality for RadWindow but it still not implemented. I cannot tell you exactly when it will be available, certainly after our Q3 208 release due to having little time until it and having tasks with higher priority set.


Best wishes,
Svetlina
the Telerik team

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[hbanerjee]

This is not a problem anymore since it can be achieved through setting a Session Flag when the window opens OnClientShow (you have to use some sort of Ajax functionality ). I have used Ajax Pro to set the flag when someone opens the window from client side. Check the Session flag on Page Load in the Control Panel. If set then I can set the  VisibleOnPageLoad Property to true. On the OnClientClose I can set the flag to false

 

[jc mag]

Any news about preserving state functionality?

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello Jc,

  This feature has not been requested since the earlier posts and thus we have had to focus on features with higher demand and improvements with higher impact. We have this one logged in our database, but I cannot provide an estimate when or even if this feature will be available.

    For the time being you can save and load the state manually through the session as proposed in the previous psot. For your convenience I created a small sample that saves when it is closed and minimized.You can further extend it to match your needs. Please note that this is no trivial matter and I cannot guarantee that this approach will work in all cases and scenarios. Further developing and using this custom solution will make it much more complex and will require much more code and round trips to the server and handling it correctly would be the developer's responsibility.


Kind regards,
Marin
the Telerik team