Events Widget - No upcoming events message - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 11-Aug-2011 00:00

Hi all,

I am stuck and need some help. Is there a way to set up an events list template in the Events widget so that it will display a message on a web page if there are no upcoming events? Currently I am trying to add EmptyDataTemplate block to the template, without success.The text in the template does not display if there are no events. Here's the template in question:

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Comments" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.PublicControls.BrowseAndEdit" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

<telerik:RadListView ID="eventsList" ItemPlaceholderID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" EnableEmbeddedSkins="true" EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet="true">
    <LayoutTemplate>
        <sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar ID="MainBrowseAndEditToolbar" runat="server" Mode="Add"></sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar>
        <div class="sfeventsList sfeventsListTitleCityDate" style="list-style:none">
            <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" />
        </div>
        <div class="events_pad" />
    </LayoutTemplate>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <li class="sfeventListItem">
            <h3 class="sfeventTitle">
                <sf:DetailsViewHyperLink TextDataField="Title" ToolTipDataField="Description" runat="server" />
            </h3>
            <div class="sfeventMetaInfo">
                <sf:FieldListView ID="where" runat="server"
                    Text="0 | " Properties="City"   />
                <sf:FieldListView ID="EventsDates" runat="server" />
                <sf:CommentsBox ID="itemCommentsLink" runat="server" CssClass="sfeventCommentsCount"/>
            </div>
            <sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar ID="BrowseAndEditToolbar" runat="server" Mode="Edit,Delete,Unpublish"></sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar>
        </li>
    </ItemTemplate>
    <EmptyDataTemplate>
           No upcoming events.
    </EmptyDataTemplate>
</telerik:RadListView>
<sf:Pager id="pager" runat="server"></sf:Pager>

Your help will be most welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Igor

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Aug-2011 00:00

Hello Igor,

We have replied to you in the support thread you have opened, please check our response there. For your convenience I'm pasting my response below:

"You can create an external template for the events widget, and subscribe to the Page_PrRender event in the codebehind to check whether the count of the items in your RadListView is 0, if so you can conditionally display/set visibility of the desired text. I'm attaching the template that I've used for your reference."

Big thanks to Steve McNiven-Scott, who brought our attention on the necessity to have such a feature we have logged this as a task for the upcoming releases. You can check the initial discussion on the topic on this forum thread.

Greetings,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 23-Sep-2014 00:00

Has this been fixed as of 7.0?

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