Missing Something Easy??

[Ramjet]

Hello,

I have to be missing something very easy here. I have a radRotator that works when I reference the Telerik rss feed but fails when I reference a local XML file. I know it reads because putting a breakpoint catches it during the read and further view source show the output HTML with the values from the XML file for the list items so....What simple thing am I missing?

HTML Code:

<table id="tbl_Basics" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="220">
     <tr>
          <td>
               <a href='<%# XPath("EventLink").ToString()%>' style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: Black; background-image: url('images/Mondaytest.png');"></a>

<telerik:RadRotator ID="rotatr_ChurchEvents" RotatorType="AutomaticAdvance" ScrollDirection="Up" ScrollDuration="4000" runat="server" Width="220" DataSourceID="XMLChurchEvents" ItemWidth="220" Height="330" ItemHeight="64" FrameDuration="1" InitialItemIndex="-1" CssClass="rotator">
                                <ItemTemplate>
                                    <div class="itemTemplate" onclick="document.location='<%# XPath("EventLink").ToString()%>'" style="background-image: url('images/Mondaytest.png');">

                                        <div class="dateTime">
                                            <div class="time">
                                                <%# (this.GetTimeOnly(XPath("EventTime").ToString())) %>
                                            </div>

                                            <div class="date">
                                                <%# XPath("EventDate").ToString() %>
                                            </div>
                                        </div>

                                        <div class="title">
                                            <span>
                                                <%# System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(XPath("EventText").ToString())%>
                                            </span>
                                        </div>

                                    </div>
                                </ItemTemplate>
                            </telerik:RadRotator>
                            <asp:XmlDataSource ID="XMLChurchEvents" runat="server" XPath="ChurchEvents/Events/EventDetails" DataFile="XML/ChurchEvents.xml" />
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>

No code behind worth lokking at. Here is the XML doc structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <ChurchEvents>
    <Events>

      <!-- USE This Section for weekly events-->
      <EventDetails>
        <EventText>Worship Service</EventText>
        <EventTime>11:00</EventTime>
        <EventDate>Sunday</EventDate>
        <EventLink></EventLink>
      </EventDetails>





      <!-- Use this section for special events-->
      <EventDetails>
        <EventText>Financial Peace</EventText>
        <EventTime>02:00</EventTime>
        <EventDate>Sat. Feb. 27</EventDate>
        <EventLink></EventLink>
      </EventDetails>


    </Events>
  </ChurchEvents>

Thank You for your assistance
JB

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello JB,

There are a few behavior patterns of RadRotator:

• If you do not have enough data (items) to populate the whole viewport of the RadRotator and the InitialItemIndex is set to "-1" the Rotator will not start scrolling and therefore will not show any of the data
• If you do not have enough data (items) to populate the whole viewport of the RadRotator and the InitialItemIndex is not explicitly defined (defaults to "0") the Rotator will show the items but will not scroll

You could also try populating the XML file with fake items (i.e. copying the existing ones 2 or 3 times) and see if your project works properly as that is exactly what solved the issue on our side (plus an imitation of your this.GetTimeOnly() method that simply returns the string from XPath).

Regards,
Marin
the Telerik team

[Ramjet]

EXCELLENT! That also answers a question I had heading my way about scrolling.

Thank You
JB