Recurrence Items in UI for WinForms Scheduler and Reminder

Jeremy Murtishaw

86 posts

Member since:
Apr 2009

Posted 18 Aug 2009 Link to this post

How do you go about updating only 1 instance of a recurring appointment programmically? Say I want to change the tooltip or background color of just the occurence highlighted rather than all occurences that exist.

Nick

Admin

767 posts

Posted 21 Aug 2009 Link to this post

Hi Jeremy Murtishaw,

Thank you for contacting us. If you have a recurrent appointment (for simplicity I am using Appointment[0] in the code below) which is repeated every day, you can access all its occurrences using the Occurrences property. Of course, this is an infinite sequence of Appointments so that the loop below will eventually throw stack overflow:

    
            private void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
        
            {      
        
                        foreach (Appointment appointment in this.radScheduler1.Appointments[0].Occurrences) 
        
                        { 
        
                            appointment.ToolTipText = "Some tooltip text"; 
        
                        } 
        
            }

Best wishes,
Nick
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Jeremy Murtishaw

86 posts

Member since:
Apr 2009

Posted 21 Aug 2009 Link to this post

I am using a custom Appointment Type (MyCustomAppointment). I get the following error? Any suggestions?

Unable to cast object of type'Telerik.WinControls.UI.Appointment' to type 'MyCustomAppointment'.

for (int i = 0; i < this.radScheduler.Appointments.Count; i++)

{

foreach (MyCustomAppointment appointment in this.radScheduler.Appointments[i].Occurrences)

{

appointment.ToolTipText = "my tooltip";

}

public class MyCustomAppointment : Appointment

{

public MyCustomAppointment()

: base()

{ }

}

Jordan

Admin

547 posts

Posted 24 Aug 2009 Link to this post

Hello Jeremy Murtishaw,

The error that you get is because the objects are of type Appointment. This is because when a occurrence needs to be created the CreateOccurrence method is called. And in the Appointment class
it is overridden to create objects of type Appointment:

    
             public override IEvent CreateOccurrence(DateTime start) 
        
                    { 
        
                        Appointment occurrence = new Appointment(); 
        
                        occurrence.Start = start; 
        
                        occurrence.Duration = this.Duration; 
        
                        occurrence.Summary = this.Summary; 
        
                        occurrence.Description = this.Description; 
        
                        occurrence.Location = this.Location; 
        
                        occurrence.ToolTipText = this.ToolTipText; 
        
                        occurrence.Visible = this.Visible; 
        
                        occurrence.AllowDelete = this.AllowDelete; 
        
                        occurrence.AllowEdit = this.AllowEdit; 
        
                        occurrence.resourceIds = this.resourceIds; 
        
                        occurrence.BackgroundId = this.BackgroundId; 
        
                        occurrence.StatusId = this.StatusId; 
        
                        occurrence.IsViewCalculated = true; 
        
                        occurrence.masterEvent = this; 
        
                        occurrence.CultureInfoProvider = this.CultureInfoProvider; 
        
                        return occurrence; 
        
                    }

In order to avoid the error you must override this method in your custom appointment class and implement it to create instances of MyCustomAppointment type instead of the Appointment type.

However, if you do not have custom fields or logic (i.e. you do not need a custom appointment class) you can just use the IEvent type in your code as RadScheduler does.

Sincerely yours,
Jordan
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Stephen

4 posts

Member since:
May 2009

Posted 13 Jan 2011 Link to this post

Hi Jordan,
I was having this same problem aswell, except that my application is written in VB. I have a custom class that inherits from Appointment class. After reading some other threads I have added a shadow property for Master Event, as this field does not have a setter in the base class. This works fine, the only thing that does not work is that when the recurrence appointments are displayed on the scheduler window, the recurrence icon only appears on the original first occurence, and not on the other occurences which it does if you do not use a custom appointment class. Is this a bug or am I missing something else in my custom class ?.

    Private _masterEvent As Telerik.WinControls.UI.IEvent

    Public Shadows ReadOnly Property MasterEvent() As Telerik.WinControls.UI.IEvent

        Get

            If Object.Equals(_masterEvent, Nothing) Then

                Return Nothing

            Else

                Return _masterEvent

            End If

        End Get

    End Property



''' <

summary>

''' ... for repeated occurrences

''' </summary>

''' <param name="start"></param>

''' <returns></returns>

Public Overrides Function CreateOccurrence(ByVal start As Date) As IEvent

Dim occurrence As OutlookLikeAppointment = New OutlookLikeAppointment

occurrence.Start = start

occurrence.Duration = Me.Duration

occurrence.RecurrenceRule = Nothing

occurrence.Summary = Me.Summary

occurrence.Description = Me.Description

occurrence.Location = Me.Location

occurrence.ToolTipText = Me.ToolTipText

occurrence.Visible = Me.Visible

occurrence.AllowDelete = Me.AllowDelete

occurrence.AllowEdit = Me.AllowEdit

occurrence.ResourceIds = Me.ResourceIds

occurrence.BackgroundId = Me.BackgroundId

occurrence.StatusId = Me.StatusId

occurrence.CultureInfoProvider = Me.CultureInfoProvider

occurrence.IsViewCalculated = True

     occurrence.MasterEvent = Me

occurence.Email = Me.Email

Return occurrence

End Function

Many thanks

Steve

Dobry Zranchev

Admin

353 posts

Posted 18 Jan 2011 Link to this post

Hello Steve,

Thank you for writing.

You are correct that you are not able to set the MasterEvent of the occurrence. The reason is that the field and the property MasterEvent is called with the same name (field name is 'masterEvent', property name is 'MasterEvent'). VB.Net is not case sensitive and it finds only the property so you are not able to see the field. If you want to set this property, you should to use reflection in order to set the field value.

Public Class CustomAppointment

inherits Appointment

''' <summary>

''' ... for repeated occurrences

''' </summary>

''' <param name="start"></param>

''' <returns></returns>

Public Overrides Function CreateOccurrence(ByVal start As Date) As IEvent

Dim occurrence As CustomAppointment = New CustomAppointment

occurrence.Start = start

occurrence.Duration = Me.Duration

occurrence.RecurrenceRule = Nothing

occurrence.Summary = Me.Summary

occurrence.Description = Me.Description

occurrence.Location = Me.Location

occurrence.ToolTipText = Me.ToolTipText

occurrence.Visible = Me.Visible

occurrence.AllowDelete = Me.AllowDelete

occurrence.AllowEdit = Me.AllowEdit

For each id as EventId in Me.ResourceIds

occurrence.ResourceIds.Add(id)

Next

occurrence.BackgroundId = Me.BackgroundId

occurrence.StatusId = Me.StatusId

occurrence.CultureInfoProvider = Me.CultureInfoProvider

occurrence.IsViewCalculated = True

dim appType as Type = GetType(Telerik.WinControls.UI.Appointment)

appType.GetField("masterEvent", system.reflection.bindingFlags.Instance or system.reflection.bindingFlags.NonPublic).SetValue(occurrence, me)

Return occurrence

End Function

End Class

In case that you have other related questions, do not hesitate to write back.

All the best,
Dobry Zranchev
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Timothy

37 posts

Member since:
Nov 2012

Posted 22 Apr 2013 Link to this post

Is this still relevant?

Dim appType As Type = GetType(Telerik.WinControls.UI.Appointment)

appType.GetField("masterEvent", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance Or System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic).SetValue(occurrence, Me)

appType.GetField("masterEvent", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance Or System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic) returns Nothing for me.

Thanks.

Timothy

37 posts

Member since:
Nov 2012

Posted 22 Apr 2013 Link to this post

I think I may have figured it out. The Appointment class inherits the Event class which contains masterEvent. So, I substituted Event for Appointment. Is that the correct way to do it now?

Thanks.

Peter

Admin

1148 posts

Posted 25 Apr 2013 Link to this post

Hi Timothy,

Thank you for writing.

I would like to confirm that your approach is correct because the Appointment class inherits the Event class, which contains the MasterEvent property, which is read-only and cannot be set.

Should you have any other questions or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact us.

All the best,
Peter
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