c1Schedule : stop in-line editing of Subject

c1Schedule : stop in-line editing of Subject

Posted by: chris.moxon on 14 July 2021, 10:39 am EST

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  chris.moxon

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  Posted 14 July 2021, 10:39 am EST

  Hi,

  Not sure if this is possible - but here goes … we add appointments to the schedule in code, but we do not use any of the standard properties ie. Subject, Location etc - all our data is saved in the Tag property and then we display the info in a format that we need via the format events. We therefore also do not use your standard edit form - because again that wouldn’t make any sense to our users - we intersect the beforeAppointmentShow event and display our own editor. All so far is ok …

  But what isn’t ok - is when the user single-clicks an appointment twice - the control currently shows the user the contents of the Subject property and allows them to edit the value - this is similar to what Outlook does - but based on what I’ve said above - this doesn’t make sense for us, as we don’t use the Subject property and thus the appointment text is made to disappear (in reality - it’s showing the blank subject) - so is there any way, we can stop this from happening ? i.e. stop this in-line editing, as it isn’t relevant to the way we use your control.

  Thanks,

  Chris.

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  wknauf

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  Posted 14 July 2021, 11:34 am EST

  Hi Chris,

  we use this code to prevent the standard edit form (handles the “BeforeAppointmentShow” event)

  
      private void c1Schedule_BeforeAppointmentShow(object sender, CancelAppointmentEventArgs e)
      {
        e.Cancel = true;
  
        //Show your custom edit form here.
      }
  
  

  Hope this helps

  Wolfgang

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  chris.moxon

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  Posted 14 July 2021, 12:02 pm EST

  Hi Wolfgang,

  Yes - we use that code as well, to stop the standard edit form - but it’s not that form that we are trying to stop in the above situation - it’s the in-line editing of the subject. So if you just single-click an appointment - nothing much happens; if you then single-click the same appointment - the cursor jumps to the beginning of the text in the subject property and allows the user to edit it - so in my case (because subject is blank) the user sees the cursor in front of a blank appointment - which is bad for two reasons - one it looks naff and two, the user might think that whatever they enter will be saved - but it won’t, because we don’t use (ie save/show) the subject property.

  Cheers,

  Chris.

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  Posted 14 July 2021, 12:11 pm EST

  Ah, sorry, I just see that we have another bit of code to work around this: The “EditOptions” enum has a value “AllowInplaceEdit”, which seems to cause the trouble.

  We replaced all editing with custom code, so we just needed dragging:

  
  this.c1Schedule.EditOptions = EditOptions.AllowDrag;
  
  

  Hope this fixes it for you now

  Wolfgang

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  Posted 14 July 2021, 12:39 pm EST

  Brilliant Wolfgang - thanks for your help !!