When a user selects an item from the drop down, I want to call a method that gets details from a database for the selected item (using the DataValueField).  I have this code

 protected void RadAutoCompleteBox1_EntryAdded(object sender, AutoCompleteEntryEventArgs e)
        {
                AutoCompleteBoxEntry entry = e.Entry;
                
        }

but it never gets fired, I also have this set

AutoPostBack="True"

The dropdown list appears (after typing the first 2 characters)  but I cant trap the selection event, has anyone managed to do this ?

Hi,

Such an issue is not expected, please have a look into the sample code snippet which works fine at my end. Please provide your full code if it doesn't help.

ASPX:

C#:

there is hardly any difference between what you have and my code, but the event wont fire

<telerik:RadAutoCompleteBox runat="server" ID="RadAutoCompleteBox1" Width="290" 
                              DataTextField="AlternateName" DataValueField="ArtistID" Filter="StartsWith" Skin="WebBlue"
                              DropDownHeight="300" DropDownWidth="350" InputType="Text" Culture="en-GB" OnDataSourceSelect="RadAutoCompleteBox1_DataSourceSelect" MinFilterLength="2" OnEntryAdded="RadAutoCompleteBox1_EntryAdded" AutoPostBack="True">
                              <DropDownItemTemplate>
                                   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                        <tr>
                                            
                                             <td align="left" style="width: 25%; padding-left: 10px;">

                                                 <asp:Image ID="Image1" runat="server"  Width="60" Height="90" ImageAlign="Left" ImageUrl='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"ProfileImage") is DBNull ? null : DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"ProfileImage")%>' />

                                             </td>
                                             <td align="left" style="width: 75%; padding-left: 10px;">
                                                  <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "AlternateName")%><br /><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ArtistType")%><br />
                                                  <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ContactAddressCounty")%>
                                             </td>
                                        </tr>
                                   </table>
                              </DropDownItemTemplate>
      </telerik:RadAutoCompleteBox>


protected void RadAutoCompleteBox1_EntryAdded(object sender, AutoCompleteEntryEventArgs e)
        {
                AutoCompleteBoxEntry entry = e.Entry;
                
        }

Hi,

The EntryAdded event occurs when an entry is added and InputType="Token" is set for RadAutoCompleteBox.  From your code I have noticed that you are setting InputType as Text, please change the InputType to Token which works fine at my end.

Thanks,
Shinu.