Updates to ObservableCollection not handled

[Marc]

We are databinding the ItemsSource property of the RadPivotMap to a property in our viewmodel of type ObservableCollection<> 
If we set this property to a new value, the propertychanged event is triggered and the pivotmap is updated.
However adding/deleting items to/from the ObservableCollection does not trigger an update of the pivotmap.

This seems like a bug in the pivotmap-control as everything works correctly if we bind another control to the same collection.

[Yavor]

Hello Marc,

We investigated PivotMap behavior in collection update scenarios and found out that when a completely new category is being added the PivotMap doesn't respond correctly. Our developers are currently working on a solution to this problem and it will be released with the next major version. You can workaround this by making the pivotmap rebind itself like this:

var item = new TestData()
{
    Category = "D",
    Subcategory = "D1",
    Value = 50
};
bool isNewCategory = !this.data.Any(c => c.Category == "D");
this.data.Add(item);

// workaround
if (isNewCategory)
{
    this.treeMap1.ItemsSource = null;
    this.treeMap1.ItemsSource = this.data;
}

I have created a small app that demonstrates the different scenarios that you can face when updating your collection. Please examine it and let us know if the proposed workaround doesn't work for you.

Best wishes,
Yavor
the Telerik team

[Marc]

Hello Yavor,

You're right about the behavior of the pivotmap. The bug only appears on adding a new category, we didn't notice that before.
We had a similar workaround already in place and that's working fine for now. Of course it would however be nice if the bug will be removed from future versions...

Thanks for the quick response, sorry that I was not able to verify your comments earlier.

Kind regards, Marc.

[Yavor]

Hi Marc,

I am happy to announce that our developers were able to fix this problem last weak and you can get the fix with the next LIB. It will be available for download from your account later today.

All the best,
Yavor
the Telerik team