Command Reference

The ASP.NET page framework provides a technique called event bubbling that allows a child control to propagate events up its containment hierarchy. Event bubbling enables events to be raised from a more convenient location in the controls hierarchy and allows event handlers to be attached to the original control as well as to the control that exposes the bubbled event.

RadTreeList command names

When an event bubbles from a child control, RadTreeList will fire ItemCommand event. A child control (such as a Button server control) raises a bubble event if you set any value in CommandName property.

Merely the MS LinkButton, MS Button and MS ImageButton controls have CommandName property and can trigger the event bubbling mechanism of the treelist.

For example the command name is "Custom" , then RadTreeList will fire ItemCommand event and the event argument of the handler function (generally the "e"variable ) will have the same command name , i.e. "Custom" as a value for the e.CommandName property. Moreover, the e.Item argument will be a reference to the Item which is the parent of the control raised the bubble event(i.e. the Item where the button resides).

Some command names are predefined in RadTreeList and the control will respond to them automatically(like the value of RadTreeList.SelectCommandName constant or RadTreeList.SortCommandName). The integrated paging in RadTreeList is also based on commands, with CommandName ="Page"(or RadTreeList.PageCommandName) and command various arguments for different paging operations like the string "Next","Prev" or "First".

Here follows a list of the recognized command names in Telerik RadTreeList:

Command name	Description
RebindTreeListCommandName	Represents the Rebind command name. Forces RadTreeList.Rebind() method execution.
ExpandCollapseCommandName	Represents the ExpandCollapse command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event.Toggles the expanded state of the child items.
EditCommandName	Represents the Edit command name. Fires RadTreeList.EditCommand event.Takes the data item it was fired upon into edit mode.
InitInsertCommandName	Represents the InitInsert command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event.Switches the RadTreeList control into insert mode by opening an insert form. Inserting it will result in creating a child item to the data item that the InitInsertCommand was fired for.
CancelCommandName	Represents the Cancel command name. Fires RadTreeList.CancelCommand event.Cancels the insert or edit of the data item it was fired for and takes it back to browse mode.
UpdateCommandName	Represents the Update command name. Fires RadTreeList.UpdateCommand event.Updates the data item it was fired for with the values provided in the edit form of this item.
PerformInsertCommandName	Represents the PerformInsert command name. Fires RadTreeList.InsertCommand event.Creates a new entry in the datasource and populates it with the values provided in the insert form.
DeleteCommandName	Represents the Delete command name. Fires RadTreeList.Delete event.Deletes the entry in the datasource corresponding to the data item upon which the command was fired.
SortCommandName	Represents the Sort command name. Fires RadTreeList.Sorting event.Can be raised by link/push/image buttons residing in the RadTreeList body when its AllowSorting property is set to true. Their CommandName should be set to 'Sort' and CommandArgument must match the name of the underlying source field to be sorted(for example ContactName for Customers Northwind table).
PageCommandName	Represents the Page command name.Fires the RadTreeList.PageIndexChanged event. Can be raised by link/push/image buttons residing in the RadTreeList body when its AllowPaging property is set to true. Their CommandName should be set to 'Page' and CommandArgument must match one of the values from the second table below.See also: Paging.
ChangePageSizeCommandName	Represents the ChangePageSize command name. Fires RadTreeList.PageSizeChanged event. Can be raised by link/push/image buttons residing in the RadTreeList body when its AllowPaging property is set to true. Their CommandName should be set to 'ChangePageSize' and CommandArgument must be the actual number representing the new page size that will be set.
SelectCommandName	Represents the Select command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event.Sets Item.Selected to true .
SelectAllCommandName	Represents the SelectAll command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event. Sets Item.Selected to true for all visible TreeListDataItem.
DeselectCommandName	Represents the Deselect command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event. Sets Item.Selected to false .
DeselectAllCommandName	Represents the DeselectAll command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event. Sets Item.Selected to false for all visible TreeListDataItem.
ReorderCommandName	Represents the Reorder command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event. Raised when server-side column reordering is performed in RadTreeList and ClientSettings.Reordering.ColumnsReorderMethod is set to Reorder .
SwapCommandName	Represents the Swap command name. Fires RadTreeList.ItemCommand event. Raised when server-side column reordering is performed in RadTreeList and ClientSettings.Reordering.ColumnsReorderMethod is set to Swap .
ItemClick	Fires when the ClientSettings.AllowPostBackOnItemClick property ofRadTreeList is set to true and an item in the control is clicked.

Furthermore, here are the internally recognized command arguments you can check:

Paging command arguments	Description
FirstPageCommandArgument	Indicates that the end user chose to navigate to the first page in the treelist
NextPageCommandArgument	Indicates that the end user chose to navigate to the next page in the treelist
PrevPageCommandArgument	Indicates that the end user chose to navigate to the previous page in the treelist
LastPageCommandArgument	Indicates that the end user chose to navigate to the last page in the treelist