[Solved] PanelBar Content for Items Only

[Brian Mains]

Hello,

Can you use a foreach (..) in the content() method?  I need to render multiple items with custom content...  Basically, I want to render a list of items with a checkbox...

Can I do that in the PanelBar control?

Thanks.

[Georgi Krustev]

Hi Brian,

Use this approach:

    <%
        var list = new List<string> { "fisrt", "second", "last" };
        Html.Telerik().PanelBar().Name("PanelBar1")
            .BindTo(list, (item, stringName) =>
            {
                item.Text = stringName;
                item.Content = () =>
                {
                    %>
                        <label for="chk">
                        <% Response.Write(stringName); %>
                        </label>
                        <input type="checkbox" name="chkBox" id="chk" />
                    <%
                };
            })
            .Render();
%>

For further information review this online help topic.

Best wishes,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

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[Steve]

This is exactly what I was looking for - thank you.

(Perhaps consider updating documentation for this!)

[Jim]

This post was helpful for me, but I need to take it one layer further.  I need to populate a single item of the PanelBar with subItems of names found in an xml document and associate those names with an action.  The code I am testing with is as follows:

                    items.Add().Text("Members")
                    .Items(subItems =>
                    {
                        subItems.Add().Text("John Doe").Action("GetMember", "Members", new { id = "300001" });
                    });

This works well for just a few membes, but as the member list grows, I need a way to extract the First and Last name as well as the id from the xml file and then build a subitem as shown in my example.  The member list changes from time to time and I don't want to have to change the code to facilitate a member change.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Jim

[Brian Mains]

Hey,

Yeah, looping should work:

.Items((subitems) =>
{
     XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(..);
     foreach (XElement elem in doc.Root.Elements())
     {
          subitems.Add().Text(elem.Element("FirstName").Value + " " + elem.Element("LastName").Value). ...
     }
}