Can the id of scheduler events be a string?

[Shane]

Or can it only be a number? We use GUIDs for all our identifiers so it'd be nice to be able to use a string for an id of the events in the scheduler

This would allow us to do things like mix different types onto a scheduler since we have globally unique ids

[Eduardo Serra]

Hello Shane,

You can definitely use a GUID as the id of a scheduler event, as it allows for either a string, a number, or an object.

You can find the API Reference for the Kendo SchedulerEvent in our documentation here.

I hope this helps!

Regards,
Eduardo Serra
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[Shane]

Hmmm ok yea I see that now....

There must be something else I'm doing wrong then.

Whenever I use a string for the ID then the ID field just comes across as null whenever I edit the SchedulerEvent. Then I'd change it back to a number and it would no longer be null.

Like if I set the id to "1" then I get a "1" when the update on the data source is called but if I set it to like "cat" then it's just null on the data that's posted to the server

I even set the type to string in the schema

schema:
                        {
                            model:{
                                id: "id",
                                fields: {
                                    id: {from: "id", type: "string"}
                                }
                            }
                        }

[Shane]

alright it doesn't like me calling it "id" I guess

I changed the field on my data structure to be called "Identifier" then mapped that to "id"

 

schema:
                        {
                            model:{
                                id: "identifier",
                                fields: {
                                    identifier: { from: "Identifier", type: "string"}
                                }
                            }
                        }

 

and now it seems to work

[Eduardo Serra]

Hello Shane,

I'm glad to hear everything is now working as expected. Indeed, some words are reserved and don't play well with the API.

Regards,
Eduardo Serra
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[Shane]

So then once I've mapped a different field like Identifier to Id? How can i use dataSource.GetById ?
Because now when I call datasource.getById with my string based field I always just get back undefined

I inspected the kendo model files and the id field is indeed still undefined ... So now can I just not use GetById ?? How do I pull something specific out of the data source then?

[Shane]

I noticed GetByUID

Our ID from the server looks like this
"dbb56553-7c7f-4dc3-9128-f40e4b806b93-1714"

it looks for some reason something is lopping off that last part that's been tacked onto the guid hmmm

I'm guessing I'm just missing something obvious on my side :-p

 

[Shane]

WAIT I get it :-p

I'm tricking myself ... You all are generating a guid which I was thinking were my guids

 

Carry on nothing to see here :-)