AutoComplete Suggest not working

[1zias01]

I have an AutoComplete calling an ajax-enabled WCF service using JSON.  it's works fine and I get results when I type into the Input.  However I would also like to programmatically set the input value and have results returned.  I tried to use the example below.  And it sets the input box but it's not getting data and the drop down results aren't showing up.   How do I get this to work?

Forces a suggestion onto the text of the AutoComplete.

Example

// note that this suggest is not the same as the configuration method
// suggest which enables/disables auto suggesting for the AutoComplete
//
// get a referenence to the Kendo UI AutoComplete
var autoComplete = $("#autoComplete").data("kendoAutoComplete");

// force a suggestion to the item with the name "Inception"
autoComplete.suggest("Inception");

[1zias01]

Anyone alive out there?!

[Georgi Krustev]

Hi Chris,

 I believe that you need to use the search method to filter the DataSource. Check this help topic for more information.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[1zias01]

Whoops spoke too soon.

Looks like I have to call both like so:

var autoComplete = $("#autoComplete").data("kendoAutoComplete");

// force a suggestion to the item with the name "Inception"
autoComplete.suggest("Inception");

autoComplete.search("Inception");

That did it.  What a relief.


Thanks