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Dimitrij
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Dimitrij asked on 17 Apr 2015, 08:48 AM

Hey guys,

We have a big problem compiling Kendo templates which contain other Kendo widgets, e.g. a Grid.
We have the following template (simplified):

<script id="myTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-template">
@(Html.Kendo().Grid<MyViewModel>()
  .Name("myGrid")
  .Columns(columns =>
  {
     columns.Bound(c => c.Name);
  })
)
</script>

The original template contains other dynamic data-bound values, e.g. "#=Id#"... thus we need a template approach! Now we want to compile this template, because we need to show it as content of a window:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var myTemplate = kendo.template($("#myTemplate").html());
</script>

This should work fine, but Kendo gives us invalid JavaScript when compiling:

Invalid template... Generated code: 
 
var $kendoOutput, $kendoHtmlEncode = kendo.htmlEncode;with(data){$kendoOutput='<div class="k-widget k-grid" id="myGrid"><table><colgroup><col /></colgroup><thead class="k-grid-header"><tr><th class="k-header" data-field="Name" data-index="0" data-title="Name" scope="col"><span class="k-link">Name</span></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="k-no-data"><td colspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><script>\n\tjQuery(function(){jQuery("';myGrid").kendoGrid({"columns":[{"title":"Name","field":"Name","encoded":true}],"scrollable":false,"autoBind":false,"dataSource":{"type":(function(){if(kendo.data.transports['aspnetmvc-server']){return 'aspnetmvc-server';} else{throw new Error('The kendo.aspnetmvc.min.js script is not included.');}})(),"transport":{"read":{"url":""},"prefix":"channelsAssignGrid-"},"serverPaging":true,"serverSorting":true,"serverFiltering":true,"serverGrouping":true,"serverAggregates":true,"filter":[],"schema":{"data":"Data","total":"Total","errors":"Errors","model":{"fields":{"Name":{"type":"string"}}}}}});});
       ;$kendoOutput+=;}return $kendoOutput;
In this code, e.g. jQuery("';myGrid") is emitted as wrong JS code...

 

Any ideas/solutions for this? I think we're not the first discovering this problem... is there any straight forward solution?

 

Thanks, Dimitrij

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Dimiter Madjarov
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answered on 21 Apr 2015, 06:30 AM

Hello Dimitrij,

The question is answered on the support thread on the same topic. The ToClientTemplate method of the widget should be invoked.

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Rajan
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answered on 21 Sep 2016, 02:33 PM
Hi,

I am getting the invalid Template Error while trying to open the nested grid in kendo grid control.
After lots of findings I have come to know that error is coming because grid's one column contains the data with "#" inside it.
I have done lots of R&D to handle this but did not succeed.

Please help me in the concerned issue.
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Maria Ilieva
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answered on 26 Sep 2016, 07:54 AM
Hi Rajan,

From the error message it seems that the reason for the problem is the AntiXssEncoder which is enabled in the Web.config httpRuntime configuration:

<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" encoderType="System.Web.Security.AntiXss.AntiXssEncoder, System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
The spaces in the attributes are encoded and the "#" character is included which breaks the templates parsing. Removing it should resolve the problem. 

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Rolston
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answered on 28 May 2019, 02:48 PM
Hi Maria, I'm also having same error. that's a cross origin attack security module, i don't thinks its safe to remove it. is there any other way around this issue?
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Tsvetina
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answered on 30 May 2019, 08:47 AM
Hi Rolston,

This error could have different causes and many of them can be addressed without disabling the AntiXssEncoder. Could you copy the full error message that you see in the browser console (including the stack trace) as well as the current declaration of the template that fails to load?

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