Hello Randy,
In general, widget is initialized only once on kendo.bind method call. Note, however, that any subsequent kendo.bind call will set the options of the widget using its setOptions method. In this case, the toolbar options are retrieved from the data attributes every time, because setOptions method retrieves them. What you can do is to implement a custom MVVM binding for the toolbar option. Thus you can update it from the ViewModel instead of using jQuery. Here is a Dojo
demo.
Regards,
Georgi Krustev
Telerik
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