Show ToolTip For Cells in RadScheduler

[bdukes]

I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to tootipify each cell in the RadScheduler.  Since the cells don't have Client IDs, I'm having a hard time figuring out if there's any way to wire-up the RadToolTipManager to those cells.

Is there any way that I can manually create/show/wire-up a tooltip on the client side, maybe?  I have jQuery on the site, so it's pretty easy to select all of the table cells of the calendar, but then I still don't know how to get a tooltip to show up on them.

Has anyone tried to do this before?  Anything I'm missing?

Thanks for the help!

[Svetlina Anati]

Hi bdukes,

There are several ways to achieve what you want depedning on your preferences and exact scenario. In order to get a better overview on the different possibilities, please examien teh following resources:

1. ToolTipify  through code:
   
   http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/scheduler/examples/radtooltip/defaultcs.aspx
   
2. Automatic tooltipifying:
   
   http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/tooltip/examples/tooltipzoneid/defaultcs.aspx
   
3. Create the tooltips on the client when no ClientIDs for the Target elements are available
   
   and
   
4. Add ID attributes on teh server when no IDs for teh Target elements are available.
   
   The approaches in 3) and 4) are demonstrated in the following demos:
   
   http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/tooltip/examples/tooltiptreeview/defaultcs.aspx
   http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/tooltip/examples/tooltipcalendar/defaultcs.aspx
   
   The above two demos are not for teh scheduler in particular but they demonstrate common techniques of tooltipifying of elements without client ids.

When you install RadControls, our online examples projects are automatically installed on your computer and you can not only examine their full source code, but also extend them further in order to meet your requirements.

You can open the demos from here:

Start\Programs\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX\Open Sample WebSite In VisualStudio

The actual location on your hard disk is the following one:

C:\Program Files\Telerik\RadControls for ASPNET AJAX \Live Demos

I hope that this information is helpful.

Best wishes,
Svetlina
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[bdukes]

Number 3 appears to have the approach that I'll need to take (the calendar cells don't have IDs, and aren't represented [that I can find] on the server at all, so IDs can't be added).

Is there any documentation of the JavaScript methods available on the RadToolTipManager?  Had I been able to find documentation of the createToolTip function that the example uses, it would've greatly speeded the development of this issue.

Thanks for your help,

[Svetlina Anati]

Hi bdukes,

I am glad you could make the things work as you require. As to documenting the createTooltip method of the RadToolTipManager, we have prepared a special online demo about it which is available below:

http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/tooltip/examples/radtooltipmanagerclientapi/defaultcs.aspx

and we also demonstrated its usage in the 2 demos I linked before. This method is relatively new and still not very oten used but you are correct that it will be nice to also include it in the documentation and it will be present there in its next update.

I update your account with some Telerik points for your report.

Thank you once again for your cooperation, we highly appreaciate it.

Greetings,
Svetlina
the Telerik team

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