Recurrance Editor with database

[Randy]

My goal is to allow the user to create a schedule of when they want their recurring reports emailed to them. I'd like to use the Recurrance Editor without the RadScheduler but still need to store the schedule in my database. This is so it can be read by my windows service which checks the schedule from the database, creates the report, and does the emailing.

Is it possible to store the user's schedule in the database with only using the Recurrance Editor? If so, please show me how. Please also show me how to retreive it from the database and translate what it returns. I'll be checking if the schedule date is older than the current date.

Thanks.

[Plamen]

Hi Randy,

 
You can refer to this two articles where is explained how to populate the Recurrence editor and how to read the Recurrence rule.

Hope these will be helpful.

All the best,
Plamen
the Telerik team

[Randy]

This is a start but the examples still leave alot unanswered. Am I correct in assuming that based on what's selected in the recurrance editor, I have to (along with a few other lines of code) call either recurrenceEditor.RecurrenceRule = new DailyRecurrenceRule(interval, range), or recurrenceEditor.RecurrenceRule = new HourlyRecurrenceRule(interval, range), or recurrenceEditor.RecurrenceRule = new WeeklyRecurrenceRule(interval, recurrenceDay, range) or recurrenceEditor.RecurrenceRule = new MonthlyRecurrenceRule(dayOrdinal, interval, range), or recurrenceEditor.RecurrenceRule = new YearlyRecurrenceRule(month, dayOrdinal, range)?

If so, how do I capture which one (daily, hourly, weekly, mothly, or yearly) has been selected?

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello,

Please find attached a sample project that demonstrates how you can retrieve the recurrence rule that was generated by the recurrence editor based on user selection. For the sample purposes I added to the page a button that populates a label control with that recurrence rule frequency. This way when a user is ready with configuring  recurrence editor and clicks the button the generated recurrence rule is accessible in the code behind and ready to be stored in the data base. The generated rule is not human readable so you can parse it or use that help article that shows how you can use the recurrence rule object.

Kind regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
the Telerik team