using resources with generic list bound appts

[Josh]

Following the online demos for Binding to Generic Lists and Defining Resources as a guide, I have attempted to use resources to style my appointments. 

After running DataBind(), I can see that each Appointment has a resource but when the scheduler loads up, the styles are not taking effect. When I look at the page's html source, the appointment element has class="rsApt " (notice the space), not class="rsApt User".

The Defining Resources example source shows class="rsApt Alex" or Charlie or Bob.  The Binding to Generic List examples source shows the same thing that I am seeing.

Is this a bug, or is this functionality that is not available when binding to generic lists?  Any Ideas?

[T. Tsonev]

Hello Josh,

The resource names are not automatically rendered as CSS classes. You should attach to the AppointmentCreated event and set them on the fly, as in the example:

protected void RadScheduler1_AppointmentCreated(object sender, AppointmentCreatedEventArgs e)
{
    foreach (Resource resource in e.Appointment.Resources)
    {
        if (resource.Type == "User")
        {
            e.Appointment.CssClass = resource.Text;
        }
    }
}

Regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team

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[Ana]

As indicated in the title, I'm filling in the RadScheduler with a list (List <MyType>) and there's no way to fill in the resources.
I developed a parser to fill appointments but when i try to access to an appointment resource it crashes.
This is the binding code:

protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
          //ORIGINAL BINDING MODE
         //List<CalendarAppointment> appointments = new List<CalendarAppointment>();
            //appointments.AddRange(business.GetCalendarAppointments(calendar.Id));

          List<Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment> appointments = new List<Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment>();
          appointments = ParsearAppointments(business.GetCalendarAppointments(calendar.Id));
         RadScheduler1.DataSource = appointments;
         RadScheduler1.DataBind();
    }

 
and there is the parser:

private List<Appointment> ParsearAppointments(List<CalendarAppointment> list)

{

    List<Appointment> appointments = new List<Appointment>();

    Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment a = new Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment();

    foreach (CalendarAppointment ap in list)

    {

        a.Subject=ap.Title;

        a.Description=ap.Description;

        a.Start=ap.StartDate;

        a.End=ap.EndDate;

        a.Attributes["Place"]=ap.Location;


        //a.Resources[0].Key=ap.CalendarId;---> it crashes here

        a.Attributes["Representant"]=ap.Representative;

       appointments.Add(a);

    }

 

    return appointments;

}

And the error code:

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
{"Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.\r\nParameter name: index"}

I would appreciate a way to fix this issue or another way to do this.
Ana

[Boyan Dimitrov]

Hello,

It seems that the problem is caused by an empty resource collection for your appointment. In order to avoid that behavior I would suggest adding a resource to that item using the following expression:
//code behind

a.Resources.Add(new Resource(....));

Once you have a resource item added to the appointment resource collection, you will be able to access it by index.

Regards,
Boyan Dimitrov
the Telerik team