TabStrip Tab Click - Exclude from Ajax

[Kurt Wondra]

Hello,

I have a webpage with a radTabStrip in it which is fully wrapped by an ajax panel.  What I want is for the whole tab strip to do its partial postbacks using that ajax except for the last tab.  If the user clicks on that specific tab, I do not want the ajax to kick in, rather I want to do a full postback and then load that last time.

Using the article found here (http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/ajxexclude.html) I was able to make a button that is displayed on my second last tab to be excluded from the ajax (that button is a "Next" button which correctly calls for a full postback and then the final tab and its info is loaded).  I tried applying the same principle to the tab itself when it gets clicked, but when I debug I can clearly see that the ajax panel kicks in because I can then see the loading panel for a split second and then when the page is done processing, I am looking at the same thing I was before. Neither the tab or the content changes.

Here is the code I used to try to have my tab menu item excluded from the ajax panel:

tabScheduleQueryWizard.Tabs[13].Attributes.Add("onclick", string.Format("realPostBack(\"{0}\", \"\"); return false;", tabScheduleQueryWizard.Tabs[13].UniqueID));

And this is the code I have for the previously described button which works as desired:

btnNextCriteria.Attributes.Add("onclick", string.Format("realPostBack(\"{0}\", \"\"); return false;", btnNextCriteria.UniqueID));

Any ideas?

[Yana]

Hello Kurt,

You should subscribe to OnClientTabSelecting event of RadTabStrip and in its handler cancel the event if the last tab is clicked (using set_cancel(true) method) and add the postback functionality as explained in the help article.

All the best,
Yana
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[Kurt Wondra]

Yana,

I've tried what you've suggested but I just cannot seem to get it correct.  From what I'm seeing, that set_cancel(true) is turning off the tab strips OnTabClicked method and by turning that off, the ajax is turned off.  However, I need that OnTabClicked event to fire on the server but for it to happen in a full postbast request, not a ajax request.  Also, I could not get any desired results with the OnClientTabSelecting method.  After I employed the OnClientTabSelected method I was at least able to have my page show me the content of the final tab that I mentioned previously.

Could you please supply me with some source code of a working example of this that I may use as a tool to compare to?

Thanks.

[Yana]

Hello Kurt,

You are right, I'm sorry for my confusion.

Here is another approach to achieve this - subscribe again to OnClientTabSelecting event and set EnableAjax property of the tabstrip according to the selected tab:

function tabSelecting(sender, args) {
    var ajaxManager = $find("<%= ajaxPanel1.ClientID %>");

    if (args.get_tab().get_isLast())
        ajaxManager.set_enableAJAX(false);
    else
        ajaxManager.set_enableAJAX(true);

}

Regards,
Yana
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