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Thomas asked on 22 May 2014, 05:49 AM
Currently I'm working on a Kendo UI Grid which has Autocomplete functionality in the cell of one column via the custom editor method. The Autocomplete dataSource is an array of objects that was received from a REST endpoint. When select an autocomplete entry, a create is fired to the REST endpoint and I also receive the created entry back. My problem is now, I need to use that new data to populate the cells of the grid so that the update method on all the cells works consistant, otherwise the Id that is necessary for the update is missing and I receive an error. The objects the Autocomplete searches in are different from the one that are necessary to populate the grid.
Is there any way to manipulate the dataSource of the Grid from the select method of the Autocomplete within a cell of the grid?

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Daniel
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answered on 26 May 2014, 07:30 AM
Hello Thomas,

If the other fields in the grid dataSource should be updated in the select event then you could set the values from the object to the model that is passed with the editor options e.g.
function autocompleteEditor(container, options) {
    var model = options.model;
    $('<input data-bind="value:' + options.field + '"/>')
        .appendTo(container)
        .kendoAutoComplete({
            select: function(e) {
                var dataItem = this.dataItem(e.item.index());
                model.set("field1", dataItem.field1);
                ...
            },
            ...
        });
}




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answered on 26 May 2014, 11:56 AM
Hello Daniel,

As far as I can see it, the options object is not in the scope of .kendoAutoComplete hence I cannot use it.
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answered on 28 May 2014, 08:05 AM
Hello again Thomas,

If you do not wish to use the parameter from the parent function scope then I can suggest to find the model from the row with the dataItem method:
.kendoAutoComplete({
    select: function(e) {
        var dataItem = this.dataItem(e.item.index());
        var grid = $("#grid").data("kendoGrid");
        var row = this.wrapper.closest("tr");
        var model = grid.dataItem(row);
         
        model.set("field1", dataItem.field1);
        ...
    },
    ...
});


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answered on 28 May 2014, 09:31 AM
Hello Daniel,

in the former example I couldn't reach var model = options.model; from within the autocomplete. Your latest example though did work and I'm currently working with that one.
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answered on 28 May 2014, 02:19 PM
Hello Daniel,

I have a follow up problem to setting the model on AutoComplete. I currently use it in a grid and it doesn't update the grid when I fill the model with the correct objects and values.
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answered on 30 May 2014, 08:49 AM
Hello Stefan,

Could you share the code that you are using?

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answered on 30 May 2014, 09:10 AM
I was afraid you would ask that. I currently have no idea how to share the code since I use it in a CRM environment and get the data from different remote sources there.
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answered on 03 Jun 2014, 07:34 AM
Hello again Stefan,

Possible reasons for the grid not to be updated when changing the autocomplete text are:
  • The autocomplete input is not bound to the correct property. This could be caused by setting incorrect name(should be the same as the field name) to the input or for the value binding.
  • The autocomplete is bound to a string field and the field value is initially null. In this case the field will be considered as an object by default and you should use the data-value-primitive attribute or the valuePrimitive option to specify that the field should be bound to the autocomplete text field and not to the selected item.
but without the code that you are using for the editor we can only guess what exactly is going wrong. 


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