Manually saving the layout, on a button click event

[Chris Trina]

Is there any way to save the layout of the page to a database on a user initiated event?  I've looked at all of the examples and they all seem to be based on the SaveDockLayout event.  Normally I want to allow all of this to happen via view state, but give the client the option of saving thier layout if desired via a button.  Unfortunately all of the examples seem to depend on the DockLayoutEventArgs being present. 

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

[Chris Trina]

Ok, I have the saving working now, the code is shown below.  Any hints at some load state logic not tied to the event?  I want to do this at page load or prerender.

 

Dim stateList As System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Telerik.Web.UI.DockState) = rdLayout.GetRegisteredDocksState()

 

 

Dim serializedList As New System.Text.StringBuilder()

 

 

Dim i As Integer = 0

 

 

Try

 

 

While i < stateList.Count

 

serializedList.Append(stateList(i).ToString())

serializedList.Append(

"|")

 

System.Math.Max(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i), i - 1)

 

End While

 

then save serialized.tostring to whatever media you desire

[Chris Trina]

ok, this shouldn't be this hard.  My situation is pretty simple, static dockzones and static docs, I simply want to let viewstate do it's thing for controling the dock layout, unless the user clicks a button to save the layout.  I believe I have this handled using code from your documentation, see an earlier post.  However, once the user saves thier layout I want to restore it the next time they come to the page.  All of the examples I can find are dependent on the loadlayout event firing which is not true in my case, and if I overload that event it messes up the normal processing via viewstate.

Does anyone have a translation from this code which depends on e.positions and e.indices to something that is event independent?

 

Protected Sub RadDockLayout1_LoadDockLayout( _

 

 

ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DockLayoutEventArgs) _

 

 

Handles rdLayout.LoadDockLayout

 

 

If Not goCBCUser.PBox.PortalLayout.IsNull Then

 

 

Dim serializedList As String = goCBCUser.PBox.PortalLayout.Value

 

 

If serializedList <> Nothing Then

 

 

Dim states As String() = serializedList.Split("|"c)

 

 

Dim i As Integer = 0

 

 

While i < states.Length

 

 

Dim state As DockState = dockState.Deserialize(states(i))

 

e.Positions(state.UniqueName) = state.DockZoneID

e.Indices(state.UniqueName) = state.Index

System.Math.Max(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i), i - 1)

 

End While

 

 

End If

 

 

End If

 

 

End Sub

 

[Chris Trina]

I got everything working.  The goal was to allow view state to manage the layout, unless the user specifically choose to save thier layout, then to save the layout to a database and reload it when the page is referenced in the future.  Here is the required code for the save event and the subsequent load event.

 

Protected Sub btnSaveLayout_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles btnSaveLayout.Click

 

 

Dim stateList As System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Telerik.Web.UI.DockState) = rdLayout.GetRegisteredDocksState()

 

 

Dim serializedList As New System.Text.StringBuilder()

 

 

Dim i As Integer = 0

 

 

Try

 

 

While i < stateList.Count

 

serializedList.Append(stateList(i).ToString())

serializedList.Append(

"|")

 

System.Math.Max(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i), i - 1)

 

End While

 

''the following 2 lines are calls to our objects for saving the data
''goCBCUser.PBox.PortalLayout.Value = serializedList.ToString()

''goCBCUser.ApplyEdit(goUser,

False, goErrs)

 

 

Catch ex As Exception

 

LogUtil.LogInfo(

"Error: TeacherPortal::btnSaveLayout_Click", ex)

 

 

Throw ex

 

 

End Try

 

 

End Sub

 

 

 

 

Protected Sub RadDockLayout1_LoadDockLayout( _

 

 

ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DockLayoutEventArgs) _

 

 

Handles rdLayout.LoadDockLayout

 

 

Try

 

 

 

    Dim serializedList As String = goCBCUser.PBox.PortalLayout.Value

 

 

    If serializedList <> Nothing Then

 

 

 

        Dim states As String() = serializedList.Split("|"c)

 

 

        Dim i As Integer = 0

 

 

        While i < states.Length

 

 

            Dim state As DockState = DockState.Deserialize(states(i))

 

            e.Positions(state.UniqueName) = state.DockZoneID

            e.Indices(state.UniqueName) = state.Index

            System.Math.Max(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i), i - 1)
        

End While

 

 

 

    End If

 

 

 

Catch ex As Exception

 

LogUtil.LogInfo(

"Error: TeacherPortal::RadDockLayout1_LoadDockLayout", ex)

 

 

Throw ex

 

 

End Try

 

 

 

End Sub