I've noticed that if I have a kendo combobox with server filtering enabled, if I call the open event in jquery, it will fire a read event (go to the server and get results) and then open the list with the results. However, it doesn't always fire the read event so sometimes it doesn't update. When i call the read event, it doesn't open the list with the results. Is there anyway that i can call the read event, then make the combobox list dropdown and show the results? I'm trying to call the read event then the open event, without the open calling the read event again.