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James asked on 27 Jul 2010, 11:59 PM
I have a scenario where there are two divs on a page.  One contains a RadGrid.  Both are setup in the RadAjaxManager to only update themselves, not each other.  My problem occurs when the non-Grid div is causing a post back, I select some items in the RadGrid but once the postback completes, my selected items in the grid are cleared.  How do I prevent this?

Here is a real basic example of my setup:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Grid.aspx.cs" Inherits="TelerikTest.Grid" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <telerik:RadScriptManager ID="scriptManager" runat="server"></telerik:RadScriptManager>
        <telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="ajaxManager" runat="server" DefaultLoadingPanelID="ajaxLoadingPanel" >
            <AjaxSettings>
               <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="divGrid">
                    <UpdatedControls>
                        <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="divGrid" />
                    </UpdatedControls>
                </telerik:AjaxSetting>
                <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="divNonGrid">
                    <UpdatedControls>
                        <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="divNonGrid" />
                    </UpdatedControls>
                </telerik:AjaxSetting>
            </AjaxSettings>
        </telerik:RadAjaxManager>
        <telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel ID="ajaxLoadingPanel" runat="server" Skin="" Transparency="20" >
            <div id="Div1" style="background-color: #F0F0F0; height:100%; width:100%;" runat="server"></div>
        </telerik:RadAjaxLoadingPanel>
    <div>
        <div id="divNonGrid" runat="server">
            <asp:Button ID="btnNonGrid" runat="server" Text="non-grid" />
        </div>
        <div id="divGrid" runat="server">
            <asp:Button ID="btnGrid" runat="server" Text="grid" />
            <telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server">
                <MasterTableView>
<RowIndicatorColumn>
<HeaderStyle Width="20px"></HeaderStyle>
</RowIndicatorColumn>
  
<ExpandCollapseColumn>
<HeaderStyle Width="20px"></HeaderStyle>
</ExpandCollapseColumn>
    <Columns>
        <telerik:GridClientSelectColumn UniqueName="column">
        </telerik:GridClientSelectColumn>
        <telerik:GridBoundColumn UniqueName="ID" DataField="ID" >
        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
        <telerik:GridBoundColumn UniqueName="column1">
        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
        <telerik:GridBoundColumn UniqueName="column2">
        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
    </Columns>
</MasterTableView>
                <ClientSettings>
                    <Selecting AllowRowSelect="True" UseClientSelectColumnOnly="True" />
                </ClientSettings>
            </telerik:RadGrid>
        </div>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>


Just load a couple items into the grid on page load and put a sleep for a couple seconds when the page is posted back.  In order to reproduce: Click the non-grid button, quickly select an item in the grid by clicking the check box, notice that the selection is removed when the ajax response returns.

If I remove the divGrid from being declared in the ajax manager, the grid retains its selected items even when selected during the ajax postback. 


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answered on 28 Jul 2010, 12:20 AM
I noticed that if I change the AjaxManager like this:
<telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="ajaxManager" runat="server" DefaultLoadingPanelID="ajaxLoadingPanel" >
            <AjaxSettings>
               <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="btnGrid">
                    <UpdatedControls>
                        <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="RadGrid1" />
                    </UpdatedControls>
                </telerik:AjaxSetting>
                <telerik:AjaxSetting AjaxControlID="divNonGrid">
                    <UpdatedControls>
                        <telerik:AjaxUpdatedControl ControlID="divNonGrid" />
                    </UpdatedControls>
                </telerik:AjaxSetting>
            </AjaxSettings>
        </telerik:RadAjaxManager>

It behaves as I would expect but I don't understand why.  The actual page I am having this problem on is much more complicated than the simple example I posted.  Can you explain why it doesn't always work when I use a div as the control id?
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answered on 02 Aug 2010, 01:12 PM
Hello James,

Note that control being registered through RegisterAsyncPostBackControl must implement either INamingContainer, IPostBackDataHandler, or IPostBackEventHandler. To verify this you can try the code snippet bellow:

<asp:Panel runat="server" ID="AJAXTrigger">
</asp:Panel>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server">
        </asp:Label>
    </ContentTemplate>
    <Triggers>
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="AJAXTrigger" />
    </Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

The easiest approach to workaround this behavior is to register a simple class that inherits the Panel class and implements the INamingContainer interface. Attached to this post is a small sample that demonstrates this approach.

I hope this helps

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Martin
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answered on 02 Aug 2010, 07:41 PM
Thanks Martin,

The sample code helped a lot and I can confirm that it works.  I would think that this would be a common scenario (using a div or panel as the registered ajax control), so it seems odd that I would have to implement my own control to support it instead of it being built in to handle this scenario automatically...  But I suppose there are cases where someone might not want this behavior.  Anyway, the work around you provided works for me - thanks again.

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