I have a telerik radgrid which contains some telerik:GridBoundColumns. Until now all of them had their AutoPostBackOnFilter value set to true. This made a filter apply whenever I hit enter while inside in one of the filterboxes or if I simply left the focus of the given filter. I want to remove this functionality. So I set AutoPostBackOnFilter to "false".
If I now create a custom button on the page is there a way to trigger this same PostBack via my button?
The answer is going to vary depending on the version of Telerik that you are using; howerver, in general, telerik dumps out standard HTML, so if tou are going to be submitting form data a plain old submit should work. Also Telerik does use Ajax to handle specialized events. Here is an example:
Aspx
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<telerik:RadScriptManager ID="RadScriptManager1" runat="server">
</telerik:RadScriptManager>
<telerik:RadAjaxManager ID="RadAjaxManager1" runat="server" OnAjaxRequest="RadAjaxManager1_AjaxRequest">
</telerik:RadAjaxManager>
<telerik:RadCodeBlock ID="RadCodeBlock1" runat="server">
<script type="text/javascript">
function clientClick() {
var ajaxManager = $find("<%= RadAjaxManager1.ClientID %>");
ajaxManager.ajaxRequest("client");
}
</script>
</telerik:RadCodeBlock>
<div>
<asp:Button ID="btnServer" runat="server" Text="Make server AjaxRequest" OnClick="btnServer_Click" />
<input id="btnClient" type="button" value="Make client AjaxRequest" onclick="clientClick();" />
</div>
</form>
Code Behind
protected void btnServer_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
RadAjaxManager1.RaisePostBackEvent("server");
}
protected void RadAjaxManager1_AjaxRequest(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.AjaxRequestEventArgs e)
{
RadAjaxManager1.Alert("AjaxRequest raised from the " + e.Argument);
}