capture text being typed

[George]

I'm using the multselect dropdown which is being populated from a db, how can I capture what the users is typing in the box, so I can filter based off of what the user is typing?

 

Example: if they start typing:

  John

 

i want to pass John to my service and filter the users that are named John.

If  I use var x = $('name').data("kendoMultiSelect').text();

I get an error: Cannot read property 'text' of undefined. Is there another way to grab the text from the multiselect?

[Ivan Danchev]

Hi,

The MultiSelect automatically sends the typed text with the request to the server with serverFiltering enabled, see this demo for example: https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/multiselect/serverfiltering

Note in the demo's source section that the action has a string text parameter, which will hold the typed text:

public JsonResult ServerFiltering_GetProducts(string text) 
{
//...
}

As for getting the typed text on the client, you can attach a handler to the filtering event and get the text through the event data. Here's a dojo example, in which on typing in the input the text is logged in the console: https://dojo.telerik.com/uRAxOpoQ/2

Regards,
Ivan Danchev
Progress Telerik