You can add a button in the noDataTemplate using the NoDataTemplateId:
.NoDataTemplateId("noDataTemplate")
Template:
<script id="noDataTemplate" type="text/x-kendo-tmpl">
<div>
No data found. Do you want to add new item - '#: instance.element.val() #' ?
</div><br /><buttonclass="k-button"onclick="addNew('#: instance.element[0].id #', '#: instance.element.val() #')">Add new item</button></script>
Attached you will find a small project to demonstrate the above.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Martin
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