Hi,

You can use any third party controls inside widgets. Ms Chart is a sample.

Please follow 5 minutes tutorial and create a hello world application. Then, try to put 3rd party controls.

Regards.

-tansu

Hi,

It should work normally. One thing, if you create dashboard controls dynamically after a postback it cannot register javascript files. One workarround (if this is the case) can be drop a dashboard surface control to your page.

Regards.

-tansu

Can you send me a simple project that demonstrates the problems ?

support ~ dynamicdashboards.net.

-tansu

Was there ever a resolution to this? I am doing the same thing as the original person who posted. I am just trying to make the Dashboard work within a page that contains other controls (like a Telerik Tabstrip). Most things seem to work, but when I add a widget to the dashboard, the entire dashboard disappears. If I do an F5 refresh in the browser, it displays again.

I have now even removed all of the other controls and my dashboard works in my application, when it is in a stand-alone aspx page. However when I do something as simple as convert that ASPX page to be a content page, within a fairly basic Master Page, I again get the same behavior. The widgets work, but if I add another widget to the dashboard, the entire dashboard disappears. I have to refresh the page again to get them to appear.

It could be that my master page has a RadScriptManager on it (so I cannot add an ASP Script Manager to my aspx page that contains the dashboard, since there cannot be two script managers...). I'll try replacing the radscriptmanager with an asp script manager in the master page, to see if that works. Or I'll try getting rid of the radscriptmanager...

All in all though, I don't have a good feeling that these controls will play nicely when put into other complex ajax situations... I'm a beginner with this control though.

An update to my previous post: I removed the RadScriptManager (Telerik) from the master page. I put an ASP Script Manager on my dashboard page, and every thing worked. I removed the asp script manager from my dashboard page, and put a Telerik RadScriptManager on the page, and I get the problem again. After adding a widget, the entire dashboard disappears...

However I then removed the asp scriptmanager from my dashboard page and put it in the master page (where it was using the Rad Script Manager), and it fixed this specific problem.
However, I haven't incorporated my dashboard control onto a page that uses radajaxpanels. When I do that, I'm afraid it will break again.

Anyway, needing to use the ASP Script Manager is sort of a big bummer, since our entire app probably would have to be retested (I'm not sure what, if anything, the RadScriptManager is providing us, if anything, since I inherited this project a year ago).

Anyway, I'll post again if I find out more info that could be valuable.

We are also having this problem. Our app uses a RadScriptManager in the master template, this cannot co-exist on the same page with a ScriptManger (because the one is an extension of the other, you get an error 'Only one instance of a ScriptManager can be added to the page.'). When I use a RadScriptManager the entire dashboard disappears after a postback. It will be very difficult to take advantage of this product if it cannot be made to work with RadScriptManager, is there anything which can be done?

No-one in this thread, that I've seen, has reported any difficulty with using third-party controls within dashboard widgets. This is about using third-party controls on the rest of the page outside the dashboard surface.



No, there's a problem with Telerik RadScriptManager, which wraps the ASP.Net ScriptManager. You can download the free trial and try it for yourself:

http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax.aspx




As I said in my comment above, Telerik RadScriptManager contains an ASP.Net ScriptManager, there is definitely one on the page.



There are no JavaScript errors, the postback occurs, I can see the response in the Firebug network tab, it just doesn't render anything on the page.

Berkay, how did you get on? Have you managed to replicate the issue? Any timescale on a fix?

If this is likely to be fixed in the next few months then we will be purchasing DD, otherwise we'll be forced to build our own solution.

Hi, Pls let me know how you are getting on as I too am keen to use the DD but cannot because of this problem.

Rad Controls are one of the most popular so I think you guys need to work with or without them to find a solution.

This is a real shame for me as I like what you have done and would love to include in application asap.

Thanks

Dave

Hello Dave,

we accomplished analyse of the problem. It causes from Telerik RadScriptManager. We are using Ext.Net architecture in DD. RadScriptManager not registers Ext.Net methods to ClientInitScripts. Now, we will contact with Ext.Net to solve this problem. If they achieve solving this problem, we will publish new version immediately.

Regards.