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Rad Date Picker - date does not change when type into dateinput

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Gaurav asked on 04 May 2009, 07:12 AM

Hi,
I am having problem with RadDatePicker when user manual (types into built in Dateinput box) enter date.

Here is details.

I have RadDatepicker control inside RadGrid EditItemTemplate and uses Shared Calendar:

Design :

<radG:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="TemplateColumn" EditFormColumnIndex="1" HeaderText="Date"
                                                                                        DataField="TransactionDate" SortExpression="TransactionDate">
                                                                                        <HeaderStyle Width="110px" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
                                                                                        <ItemTemplate>
                                                                                            <asp:Label runat="server" ID="lbldate" Text='<%# Bind("TransactionDates") %>'></asp:Label>
                                                                                        </ItemTemplate>
                                                                                        <EditItemTemplate>
                                                                                            <radCln:RadDatePicker ID="rdTransactionDate" runat="server" Width="110px" MinDate="1960/1/1"
                                                                                                MaxDate="2099/1/1" Calendar-Skin="Default2006" UseEmbeddedScripts="false">
                                                                                           <DateInput ></DateInput>
                                                                                            </radCln:RadDatePicker>
                                                                                            <asp:CustomValidator ID="cvTransactionDate" runat="server" ClientValidationFunction="CheckDate"
                                                                                                ControlToValidate="rdTransactionDate"></asp:CustomValidator>
                                                                                        </EditItemTemplate>
                                                                                    </radG:GridTemplateColumn>

Code:

Inside Grid ItemCreated event Calendar is assigned to Datepicker.
It works fine when date is change using Calendar but does not work when user type into dateinput box to change the date.
Initially I thought it might be due to Ajax setting ( I might have missed of the related settings) but I have also checked by removing all Ajax Manager setting and tested the situation but it still it did not work.

During my testing I found out following details:

OndateSeleted does not fire when User types the date to change it.
Please let me know if I am missing any settings here because it should fire when
1) User chooses as date from Pop Calendar
2) User types the date to change

I would highly appreciate if you could provide any details to solve this problem.

Thanks

9 Answers, 1 is accepted

answered on 04 May 2009, 07:27 AM

Hi,

When I say date does not change:

We use Grid's insert/update functionality to insert/update record in datatabse table.

Now when date is typed into the dateinput box , it does show in there but when user clicks "update" link to save the changes it does not reflect when grid rebind.

Inside RadGrid _UpdateCommand /_InsertCommand events I used newValue collection to extract new values using "ExtractValuesFromItem" method of Grid.

Code:

                 GridEditableItem editedItem = e.Item as GridEditableItem;
                GridEditManager editMan = editedItem.EditManager;

                Hashtable newValues = new Hashtable();
                //The GridTableView will fill the values from all editable columns in the hash
                e.Item.OwnerTableView.ExtractValuesFromItem(newValues, editedItem);

                newValues["TransactionDate"] = (editedItem.FindControl("rdTransactionDate") as RadDatePicker).DbSelectedDate;
                if (newValues["TransactionDate"] != null)
                {
                    newValues["TransactionDate"] = Convert.ToDateTime(newValues["TransactionDate"]).ToShortDateString();
                }

BTW: This is additonal information that might be helpful to identify problem.

Thanks,
Gaurav

answered on 08 May 2009, 06:07 AM

Hi,

Binding is not a problem here. Let me explain it again.

Changing date using Popup Calendar:

When date is selected using Popup Calendar (use shared calendar) then change is reflected when you extract new values in update/insert command of Rad Grid to save data into Database table. OndateSeleted fires in this case

Changing date by typing into built in Dateinput box:
Now here when user types into dateinput box and after change the date when tries to save date the change does not available in Insert/update command when you try to extract new values. OndateSeleted does not fire in this case.

So I basically I would like to know is there any settings that i might be missing here to manual (type into) change date in dateinput box particularly when datepicker is inside RadGrid. Again If you think it is related to binding then please let me know because we set database value to datpicker in code bind when record is in editmode otherwise it is displayed in lable as you can see in the design snappet that I provided in my first post

Please let me know.

Thanks,
Gaurav

answered on 13 May 2009, 07:09 AM

Hi,

Regard the problem I have found the solution.
Actually I was creating test page which can duplicate the same problem avail in Original page.
I added controls one bye one from Original page to test page ( as our original page is very complex) and tested for the given problem.

During this process I noticed that It was related to "RadTabStrip" control's "UseEmbeddedScripts" property.

If I set this property to False (e.g UseEmbeddedScripts="False") then we have the problem.
If I set this property to True (e.g UseEmbeddedScripts="True") then we it works fine.

I am not sure how it is related to Rad Date picker inside Rad Grid. I definitely would like to know from anyone who can explain this behavior.

But as of now my problem is solved.

Thanks very much for your response.

Best Regards,
Gaurav