keep menu open

[cprieto]

Hello,

I've been trying to keep a menu open after a selection of an item (the menu has checkbox stuff and I need to allow the user to select the items before close it).

So far I only can get that behavior creating a fake function and generating a javascript error:

<telerik:RadContextMenu ID="contextColumns" runat="server" Flow="Vertical" Skin="Hay" OnClientItemClicked="OnMenuClick">
        <CollapseAnimation Type="OutQuint" Duration="200"></CollapseAnimation>
        <Items>
            <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Show Columns" Value="Columns">
                <Items>
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Id" State="checked" />
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="First Name" State="checked" />
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Last Name" State="checked" />
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" IsSeparator="true" />
                    <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Apply" Value="menuApply" />
                </Items>
            </telerik:RadMenuItem>
            </telerik:RadMenuItem>
        </Items>
</telerik:RadContextMenu>

And this is the way I try to do it in js:

function OnMenuClicked(sender, args) {
   var item = args.get_item();
   switch(item.get_value()) {
       case "menuApply" :
          // Here I need to apply changes and that's all
       break;
       default :
          ToggleCheckImage(item);
          this_function_does_not_exists();  // the only way to keep the menu open
   }
}

The user need to select the items in the menu and then apply the changes when select "Apply", the only way I could keep the menu open until the user select apply is using a simple javascript error.

Is any better way to do what I want? just to keep the menu displayed until the user select the correct menu option?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi kementeus,

RadContextMenu does not support this scenario. Clicking an item is always closing the menu.

Regards,
Albert
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[Daniel Plomp]

I have also asked this question long time ago. I've another situation where I need such functionality.

Isn't it possible to fire a javascript e.g. to expand the menu after the page_load?

I would really like some help regarding this issue.

Thanks,
Daniel

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Daniel,

We have this online demo which shows how to open a menu after postback.

Regards,
Albert
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[Daniel Plomp]

Hi Albert,

Thanks for the info.
However, is it possible to do this automatically? So when a menu item is pressed, the script fires?

Daniel

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Daniel,

You can modify the example to do so. For example you can use this code in the ItemClick event handler of your menu:

ScriptManager.RegisterHiddenField(this, "HiddenField1", e.Item.Text);

Regards,
Albert
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[Daniel Plomp]

Okay, thanks. I will try to figure it out. I'm using the r.a.d.menu in Sitefinity, so that probably works something different.

Daniel