RibbonBarMenuItem Custom Data

[Kevin Main]

Hi all,

Just wondering if there is a way to add some custom data (in this case an ID) against a RibbonBarMenuItem?

Basically what I am doing is creating the menu from items in a database table - what I want to be able to do is grab the ID in the MenuItemClick event and then execute the correct code accordingly. 

Obviously I could do a lookup on the text itself but this is not ideal and there could potentially be items with the same text so not really an option. I guess I could inherit from the RibbonBarMenuItem and create a custom control with an ID field - would this be the correct solution? or am I missing something obvious?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Kevin       

[Nikolay Tsenkov]

Hi Kevin,

Could you, please, try using the Attributes collection?
Something like the following:

//...
var menuItem = new RibbonBarMenuItem();

menuItem.Attributes["CustomAttribute"] = "CustomValue";

//...

if (item.Attributes["CustomAttribute"] != null && item.Attributes["CustomAttribute"] == someValue)
{
//...
}

//...

Please, try this out and let me know the result.


Regards,
Nikolay Tsenkov
the Telerik team

[Kevin Main]

Hi Nikolay,

That sounds like a good way to do it except that the RibbonBarMenuItem doesn't seem to have an attributes collection exposed - I have only just downloaded the new release so I assume I have the latest version (2011.1.315.35)?

I have managed to get round it at the moment by storing the ID in the ImageAltText field but obviously this is not ideal - any further suggestions?

Thanks
Kevin

[Nikolay Tsenkov]

Hi Kevin,

About the attributes collection:
 - I apologize about that. We have implemented an attributes collection already (you can upgrade to latest internal build in order to get the change), but it's not sent client-side (you can use it server-side, though).

We already are planning on implementing such additional string property to some/all RibbonBarItems.


Regards,
Nikolay Tsenkov
the Telerik team