Should I have RadScheduler?
I've got a license for SF4 Standard. I don't see RadScheduler in the
RadControls toolbox that I can enable through the administration settings. What I really need is to show a
calendar view of events on my site, and this is not possible with the Events control or the RadCalendar control (which doesn't make much sense in the first place) and from cruising the forums I *think* I might be able to achieve what I need to with RadScheduler.
So should it be in the set of RadControls that come with SF4?
Thanks!
Eric
Hello Eric,
You can use the fluent API to populate the RadScheduler appointments.
There are two facades that you can use
1. Event - this is used when you want to work with a single item
2. Events - this is used when you want to work with multiple items
sample
var eventitems = App.WorkWith().Events().Get().ToList();
You can take a look at Sitefinity 4.0 Developer Manual and How to create a widget
You need to create a custom widget that inherits from SimpleView or CompositeControl
When you inherit from SimpleView there is a property LayoutTemplateName which gets the name of the embedded layout template.
You should create a template for your control where you have RadScheduler declared.
sample
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>
<telerik:RadSchedulerID="eventsSchedule"runat="server" Skin="WebBlue"Width="500"Height="500">
<AppointmentContextMenuSettingsEnableDefault="true"/>
<TimeSlotContextMenuSettingsEnableDefault="true"/>
</telerik:RadScheduler>
In your custom class that inherits from SimpleView you need to create a control reference to the control in your template
protected virtual RadSchedulerEventsScheduler get returnthis.Container.GetControl<RadScheduler>("eventsSchedule", true); verride InitializeControls method of SimpleView and create the datasource for the EventsScheduler
You should also subscribe for AppointmentCreated event.
EventsScheduler.AppointmentCreated += newAppointmentCreatedEventHandler(EventsScheduler_AppointmentCreated);
Inside the event you can render the event item that is part of the datasource of the EventsScheduler control
private void EventsSchedule_AppointmentCreated(objectsender, AppointmentCreatedEventArgs e) var eventsManager = EventsManager.GetManager; Telerik.Sitefinity.Events.Model.Event_event = eventsManager.GetEvent(newGuid(e.Appointment.ID.ToString())); if(_event != null) HyperLink eventDetailsLink = (HyperLink)e.Container.FindControl("eventDetailsLink"); if(eventDetailsLink != null) eventDetailsLink.Text = e.Appointment.Subject; eventDetailsLink.ToolTip = _event.ContentItem.Content.ToString(); eventDetailsLink.NavigateUrl = "some url here";