Problem with Per Item Template and OnClick Events

[Peter]

hi

i am trying to use the radmenu with peritem templates as i want some specific functionality there , i saw several of your demos where you had buttons etc inside a menu item , and they had Server OnClick events attached to them.

when i set up the menu with the template , it gives me no option to access the controls on the server side , or even attach an event to it , 
this is a rough copy of the menu , but on the server side i cannot access any of the controls in it .

<telerik:RadMenu ID="RadMenu1" runat="server" Height="30px" Skin="WebBlue" Width="100%"
            ClientIDMode="AutoID">
            <Items>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" AccessKey="M" Text="My Dashboards">
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Edit">
                    <Items>
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Rename dashboard" AccessKey="S" PostBack="true" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Set as default dashboard" AccessKey="R" PostBack="true" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Delete current dashboard" AccessKey="D" PostBack="true" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Delete multiple dashboards" runat="server">
                            <GroupSettings Height="600px" Flow="Vertical"></GroupSettings>
                            <Items>
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem CssClass="rmItemE" runat="server">
                                    <ItemTemplate>
                                        <asp:CheckBoxList ID="DeleteDash" runat="server">
                                        </asp:CheckBoxList>
                                        <asp:Button runat="server" OnClientClick="if(!confirm('Are you certain you want to delete?')){return false;}"
                                            Text="Delete selected" ID="deleteseldbs" />
                                    </ItemTemplate>
                                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                            </Items>
                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Share dashboard" AccessKey="W" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Print selected charts" AccessKey="o">
                            <Items>
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="1 chart on each page" Value="1">
                                    <Items>
                                        <telerik:RadMenuItem CssClass="rmItemE">
                                            <ItemTemplate>
                                                <asp:CheckBoxList runat="server" ID="pdfmentexts">
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Caption" Value="C"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Private note" Value="P"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Shared note" Value="S"></asp:ListItem>
                                                </asp:CheckBoxList>
                                                <asp:Button ID="Button6" runat="server" Text="Create pdf" />
                                            </ItemTemplate>
                                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                                    </Items>
                                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="2 charts on each page" Value="2">
                                    <Items>
                                        <telerik:RadMenuItem CssClass="rmItemE">
                                            <ItemTemplate>
                                                <asp:CheckBoxList ID="CheckBoxList1" runat="server">
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Caption" Value="C"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Private note" Value="P"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Shared note" Value="S"></asp:ListItem>
                                                </asp:CheckBoxList>
                                                <asp:Button ID="Button2_pdf" runat="server" Text="Create pdf" />
                                            </ItemTemplate>
                                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                                    </Items>
                                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="4 charts on each page" Value="4">
                                    <Items>
                                        <telerik:RadMenuItem CssClass="rmItemE">
                                            <ItemTemplate>
                                                <asp:CheckBoxList ID="CheckBoxList2" runat="server">
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Caption" Value="C"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Private note" Value="P"></asp:ListItem>
                                                    <asp:ListItem Text="Shared note" Value="S"></asp:ListItem>
                                                </asp:CheckBoxList>
                                                <telerik:RadButton ID="btnCreatePDF" runat="server" Text="Create pdf" EnableBrowserButtonStyle="True"
                                                    OnClick="btnCreatePDF_Click">
                                                </telerik:RadButton>
                                            </ItemTemplate>
                                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                                    </Items>
                                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                            </Items>
                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Export selected to PowerPoint" AccessKey="i">
                            <Items>
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="1 chart on each page" Value="1" />
                            </Items>
                        </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Copy this dashboard" AccessKey="M" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="MultiCopy dashboards" AccessKey="G" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Select all items" AccessKey="C" />
                        <telerik:RadMenuItem Text="Link to this dashboard" />
                    </Items>
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Shared Dashboards">
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Back to main Menu" NavigateUrl="Default.aspx">
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Current Dashboard :" Width="400px">
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
                <telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" Text="Logged in as :">
                </telerik:RadMenuItem>
            </Items>
        </telerik:RadMenu>

[Peter]

sorry just to clarify , the issue i have is that i want to be able to access the controls in the item template at run time to be able to populate with values or change things , is this at all possible ?

[Princy]

Hi,

You can access the controls from server side as shown below.
C#:

protected void RadMenu1_ItemClick(object sender, RadMenuEventArgs e)
{
    RadMenuItem item = RadMenu1.FindItemByText("text");
    TextBox txt = (TextBox)item.FindControl("TextBox1");
}

Thanks,
Princy.