RadComboBox inside Grid PagerTemplate problem

[Karen]

Hi all

I have a RadComboBox placed inside the PagerTemplate of RadGrid

<PagerTemplate>
                                    <br /><br />
                                    <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                                        <tr>
                                            <td align="left">
                                                Selected: &nbsp;
                                                <telerik:RadComboBox ID="ActionBox" SkinID="NotFixed" runat="server">
                                                    <Items>
                                                        <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Delete" Value="1" />
                                                        <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Mark as Read" Value="2" />
                                                        <telerik:RadComboBoxItem Text="Add to Black List" Value="3" />
                                                    </Items>
                                                </telerik:RadComboBox>
                                                &nbsp;
                                                <asp:Button ID="GoBtn" CssClass="SmallGreenBtn" OnClick="ActionGo_Clicked" runat="server" Text="Go" />
                                            </td>
                                            <td align="right">
                                                <asp:Panel runat="server" HorizontalAlign="Right" ID="NumericPagerPlaceHolder"></asp:Panel>
                                            </td>
                                        </tr>
                                    </table>  
                                </PagerTemplate>

And a button GoBtn which fires click event, I am getting the ComboBox from Pager using the following method

private RadComboBox GetActionBox()
        {
            GridItem pagerItem = InboxGrid.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Pager)[0];
            RadComboBox ActionBox = (RadComboBox) pagerItem.FindControl("ActionBox");
            return ActionBox;
        }

It successfully finds the Combo but the selected value is always the first item's value in the Combo, I am stack with this and cannot move forward , any help is much appreciated.

I also fire OnItemDataBound event to add the numeric pager, (just for more info)

if (e.Item is GridPagerItem)
            {
                GridPagerItem gridPager = e.Item as GridPagerItem;
                Control numericPagerControl = gridPager.GetNumericPager();
                Control placeHolder = gridPager.FindControl("NumericPagerPlaceHolder");
                placeHolder.Controls.Add(numericPagerControl);
            }

Data binding is done during the page load inside if(!IsPostBack)

[Vlad]

Hello Karen,

The easiest way to get the combo is with FindControl directly for the NamingContainer of the sender object in your button click event handler:

RadComboBox ActionBox = (RadComboBox) ((Button)sender).NamingContainer.FindControl("ActionBox");

Since there is a top (by default not visible) pager in the grid, this code:

InboxGrid.MasterTableView.GetItems(GridItemType.Pager)[0];

will return the top pager.

Please try this and let me know about the result.


Greetings,
Vlad
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[Karen]

Thank you so much Vlad, that helped me a lot, everything worked!