Using Ticks with Text instead of Numbers???

[mark baer]

This is probably a stupid request, but our users want to see text like "Excellent", "Good", "Fair", "Poor", like you use for "Items", but they want to be able to select BETWEEN each item...more like "Ticks".  Also, there are underlying numbers that represent each of these selections.  I changed my slider from Item to Tick, but it just shows the numbers.  I can't get it to show the Text.  Can I change that somehow?  I know your control isn't made to handle this.  I was just hoping there was/is a work around.

thanks

Mark

[Slav]

Hi Mark,

As I understand your request, you want to use the Ticks feature of the RadSlider and to display custom text instead of the corresponding number. Each number, displayed over a tick of the slider control, represents the value of that item. Changing the content of these labels is not supported out-of-the-box, when the ItemType of the RadSlider is different than Item. Nevertheless, I can suggest a custom approach for achieving the desired scenario via some additional client scripts. You can use the client event OnClientLoad, in order to iterate through the items of the RadSlider and to change the text of a particular ticks, when the control is loaded on the page.

For your convenience I have prepared and attached a sample project that demonstrates the presented approach. Please use it as a reference for incorporating the desired feature into your actual project. 

Kind regards,
Slav
the Telerik team