Selected Item Data Binding

[Andrew]

Hello,

My use case requires me to be able to set the selected panel bar item programmatically. However, I don't see any data bindings or api methods on the control ref to set the selected panel. Is this possible?

Setting the private member SelectedItem through reflection appears to work. Are there implications to doing this that I should be aware of?

        PanelBarRef.GetType().InvokeMember("SelectedItem",
            BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.SetProperty | BindingFlags.Instance, 
            null, 
            PanelBarRef,
            new object[] { SelectedPage });

 

Thank You,

-Andy

[Dimo]

Hi Andy,

This approach is not officially documented and supported, so we haven't tested it and cannot claim that it's reliable.

Alternatively, you can use OnItemRender and some custom CSS:

Select PanelBar item programmatically

Regards,
Dimo
Progress Telerik

[Joel]

This is an inadequate solution and its now been 2 years.  You need to treat this like the TelerikGrid and have a SelectedItems collection.

[Dimo]

@Joel - indeed, we have a feature request for built-in API for setting and getting the selected PanelBar items. I voted on your behalf.