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Arnaud
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Display tooltips for disabled outlookbargroups
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Hi,

   I'm using an OutlookBar to have the same behaviour as in Outlook (select on the left, show result on the right).

   Based on some security settings I can easily disable the groups the user has no access to. The OutlookBar behaves as I expected and the user can see that there are some features that he/she cannot access.

 

   However, now I've got a new requirement: to inform the user that the disabled groups are inaccessible by design and display a ToolTip or something saying that they can get the full version etc...

 

   In Silverlight I get around the fact that I can't display tooltips for a disabled control by wrapping the control inside a border and setting the tooltip on the border. Unfortunately I couldn't see an easy way to it for the OutlookBar as I can see in the style that the OulookBarGroups are inserted inside an ItemsControl.

   Is there a style somewhere that I can override to wrap the OutlookBarGroup into a Border or can somone suggest a better way of solving this issue?

 

Cheer.

 

  • 3071
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    Hi,
    To display an inaccessible group you can use HeaderTemplate and SmallIconTemplate properties.
    You can prevent the user to select an inaccessible group using the SelectedGroupChanging event.
    Here is a sample:

    <igBar:XamWebOutlookBar x:Name="outlookBar"
                                                SelectedGroupChanging="outlookBar_SelectedGroupChanging">
        <igBar:OutlookBarGroup Header="EnabledGroup 1"/>
        <igBar:OutlookBarGroup Header="DisabledGroup" 
                                            ToolTip    ="this group is inaccessible by design">
            <igBar:OutlookBarGroup.HeaderTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <ContentControl Content="{Binding}" Foreground="Gray" FontWeight="Normal"
                                            ToolTipService.ToolTip="this group is inaccessible by design"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </igBar:OutlookBarGroup.HeaderTemplate>
            <igBar:OutlookBarGroup.SmallIconTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock Text="x" FontWeight="Normal" Foreground="Gray" 
                                        HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
                </DataTemplate>
            </igBar:OutlookBarGroup.SmallIconTemplate>
        </igBar:OutlookBarGroup>
        <igBar:OutlookBarGroup Header="EnabledGroup 2"/>
    </igBar:XamWebOutlookBar>

    private void outlookBar_SelectedGroupChanging(object sender, SelectedGroupChangingEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.NewSelectedOutlookBarGroup != null )
        {
            e.Cancel = e.NewSelectedOutlookBarGroup.HeaderTemplate != null;
        }
    }

    Regards,
    Marin