Adding dynamic menu to editor

[Patrick]

I am trying to add a menu to the Editor tools that populates based on a AJAX get call. The menu will add html to the editor.

<code>

$('#OptionTextReport').kendoEditor({
tools: [
"bold",
"italic",
"underline",
"strikethrough",
{
name: "insertFeature",
template: '<ul id="featureTool"></ul>'
}
],
resizable: {
content: true,
toolbar: true
}
});
var editor = $('#OptionTextReport').data("kendoEditor");

var updateFeatureList = function (featureList) {
var list = [];
$.each(featureList, function(index, value) {
list.push({
text: value.FeatureDescription,
attr:{ featureid: value.FeatureId, description: value.FeatureDescription },
select: function (e) {
var id = $(e.target).parent().attr("featureid");
var description = $(e.target).parent().attr("description");
var html = '<span class="feature" featureid="' + id + '">[' + description + ']</span>';
editor.exec("insertHtml", { value: html });
$('.k-animation-container').hide();
featureMenu.close();
}
});
});
var result = {
text: 'Insert Feature',
cssClass: "insert-feature",
items: list
}
featureMenu.remove(".insert-feature");
featureMenu.append([result]);
}

$.get(window.pulse.Category.Url.GetOptionFeatures + '?optionId=' + optionId, function (data) {
updateFeatureList(data.Data);
}, 'json');

</code>

The menu populates correctly but when selecting an item from the list the menu stops working. the style changes and clicking on the menu does nothing.

I am using Kendo version 2018.2.620 and JQuery version 3.31 and testing using chrome 69.0.3497.81.

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Patrick,

We have tested this scenario and found out that the Menu is stripped of Kendo UI classes after the Editor is focused. The Editor might be focused manually by clicking within its content area or in the case of selecting the Menu items it is focused automatically by the insertHtml command: editor.exec("insertHtml"...

We logged this behavior for further evaluation in our Github repo, see the following issue. We would need more time to determine whether we would support nesting a Menu as a custom tool within the Editor, in which case the issue will be transformed into a bug and will be subsequently fixed, or whether there is a limitation in the Editor that prevents using the Menu as a custom tool. If we accept the latter we will declare this scenario as a limitation. This evaluation should not take long so we would suggest tracking the linked issue, where we will follow up with further details.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik

[Ivan Danchev]

Hello Patrick,

As a quick follow up, after the evaluation the issue is now considered a bug and we will try to include the fix in the next service pack release.

I updated your Telerik points for reporting this issue.

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik