Various simple questions

[Max Figueredo]

Hello there, I just started using this control, and love it. I just have a few questions that I haven't been able to find through the demos yet:

1. Is it possible to disable the timeline view all together, so that only day, week and monthly views are available ?
   
   
2. Is it possible to add line breaks to the appointment subject text ?, I tried adding \n and/or <br> to the subject string, but they are not rendered as line breaks.
   
   
3. In the monthly view, the appointment subject is trimmed because the appointment boxes are too small. I need the boxes to expand to accommodate large appointment subject strings, even if it means expanding the calendar row as well.
   
   
4. I am wondering if there is an easy way to programmatically detect appointment conflicts ?

Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much !

Max

[Veronica]

Hi Max Figueredo,

We are

1) To disable the TimeLine View - you'll need to set the UserSelectable property of the RadScheduler to "false':

<TimelineView UserSelectable="false" />

2) The solution is to use an AppointmentTemplate:

<AppointmentTemplate>
           <%# Eval("Subject") %>
</AppointmentTemplate>

3) You can expand the height of the rows in the RadScheduler via RowHeight property.

4) I am not sure what do you mean in "if there is an easy way to programmatically detect appointment conflicts". Could you please be more specific?

Regards,
Veronica Milcheva
the Telerik team

[Max Figueredo]

Great answers Veronica, thank you so much !

Please ignore #4, I'll think about it and post a more specific question later if I need to.

[Max Figueredo]

Hi Veronica,

Another question came up regarding item #2 of my original request, which was about how to insert line breaks inside appointments. Your reply was to use AppointmentTemplate, which does trick.

However, I need to display on the appointmentTemplate fields that are included in the original dataItem of the datasource, but when I use the Eval("field") syntax, of course I get an error saying:

DataBinding: 'Telerik.Web.UI.Appointment' does not contain a property with the name 'crs_del_type'.

I understand it is because the field is in the original dataItem from the dataSource, not necessarily part of the Appointment object, I can only seem to access Subject, description and appointment related fields, but there are more fields in the original dataItem that I need to format and display in the Appointment.

So is there a way to access those fields from AppointmentTemplate ?

Thank you !!!

[Jeremy]

Inside the radScheduler there is a property for CustomAttributeNames. You need to define those data items in there. Hope this helps

 

 

 

 

 

 

<telerik:RadScheduler runat="server" ID="RadScheduler1" SelectedView="TimelineView"

 

 

 

 

 

 

CustomAttributeNames=" Define dataitems here"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Max Figueredo]

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks Jeremy !!