PanelBar FindItemBy Text

[Renju Panicker]

Hi Team,

Am using a RadPanelbar as a Menu structure for my website. V 2013.2.717.40

This PanelBar is populated from a SQL Datasource and is placed in a Masterpage.

Now when I click on the item, It will go to the corresponding page. I want the Panelbar to be expanded and the selection on the selected page.

When I was using static Panelbar, it was working perfect.

Once I changed it to Databinding to SQL Datasource, the FindItemByText method is returning 'Nothing'

So I cant make the item expanded..

Here is my masterpage code.

<telerik:RadPanelBar ID="rdMenuBar" Runat="server" Width="200px"

               ExpandMode="FullExpandedItem" DataFieldID="Forms_PK_ID"

               DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"

               DataValueField="Forms_PK_ID" DataFieldParentID="Forms_ParentID"

               DataNavigateUrlField="Forms_Url" DataTextField="Forms_Name"  
                    OnItemDataBound="rdMenuBar_ItemDataBound">

<DataBindings>

<telerik:RadPanelItemBinding Depth="0" ImageUrlField="Forms_Icon" TextField= "Forms_Name" />

<telerik:RadPanelItemBinding Depth="1" ImageUrlField="Forms_Icon" TextField= "Forms_Name" />

</DataBindings>

</telerik:RadPanelBar>

Am using the Databound event also

Protected Sub rdMenuBar_ItemDataBound(sender As Object, e As Telerik.Web.UI.RadPanelBarEventArgs) Handles rdMenuBar.ItemDataBound
      Dim dataRow As DataRowView = DirectCast(e.Item.DataItem, DataRowView)
      e.Item.Attributes("Text") = dataRow("Forms_Name").ToString()
      e.Item.Text = e.Item.Attributes("Text")
  End Sub

And to make the Selection expanded in the other page, am using the code as below in page_load event

Dim rdMenuBar As RadPanelBar = Master.FindControl("rdMenuBar")
Dim ExpandedItem As RadPanelItem = rdMenuBar.FindItemByText("Configurations")
Dim SelectedItem As RadPanelItem = rdMenuBar.FindItemByText("Service")
ExpandedItem.Expanded = True
SelectedItem.Selected = True

Can anyone help me to sort out this..

Thanks and Regards

Renju

[Renju Panicker]

Hi all..

Am i the only one who has this issue?
Its been 2 weeks since  I posted this in the forum and no replies.. :-(

[Mike]

finditemby info seems to be in SHORT supply.

it is so easy to do with MS Controls, not sure why telerik make a nice product but their tutorials etc. are often lacking.

[Kate]

Hello Renju,

To get more information on the different methods that you can use you can refer to the following article http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/panelbar-server-side-accessing-items.html. Please make sure also that you find the RadPanelBar control on the first place and that the items are present in the control.

Regards,
Kate
Telerik