[Javascript] findItemByText - Returning Null

[Abinash]

Dear All,
Problem Statement - I have a popup window, in which I will search and select one item(internally I have two values). On click of a button I need this text to go to parent page and get inserted into a RADCombobox. If that Item is present, the Item will get selected else a new RADCombobox item needs to be created.
Solution - Once I select one item and click button, I am calling a Javascript function in the parent page as below.

self.opener.AddSelectedOilGrade(selValue,selText);

In the parent page I am trying to find the item existing or not and then selecting this item. Below is the code.

var

combo = $find("<%= cboOilinUse.ClientID %>");

 

 

var item = combo.findItemByText(strText);

 

 

if(item)

 

{item.select();}

 

else

 

{

var comboItem = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem();

 

comboItem.set_text(strText);

comboItem.set_value(strValue);

comboItem.select();}

I have refered to the example given in the below URL.
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/combo_clientsidebasics.html 

But this is returning NULL(var comboItem = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem();).

Please let me know if anything is going wrong.

[Veselin Vasilev]

Hello Abinash,

You are trying to select an item which is not added to the Items collection of the combobox.

You need to first add the new item to the combobox and then select it:

combo.trackChanges();
var comboItem = new Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem();
comboItem.set_text("New");
comboItem.set_value("Value");
combo.get_items().add(comboItem);
combo.commitChanges();

More information is available here: RadComboBoxItemCollection object

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Veselin Vasilev
the Telerik team

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[Ramachandran Panduranga]

Hi,

I am trying to select an Item and Highlight on a RadCombobox by passing a selected cell value from RadGrid using Clientside script.

I tried using the findItemByText method but ite returning null.

Please Kindly help me with a sample code ASAP.


Many thanks,

Ram