Documentation for Declarative Data Binding

[Ian]

I'm struggling to find documentation I need or even sample code for "Enterprise" class development using declarative data binding.  The demo's are good at getting you started quickly but none of them use declarative data- attributes, which seems an odd ommission given that the Pluralsight training course "Introducing Kendo UI" recommends this approach over the others shown in the demo's.

eg I can't find a list of all the available data-roles.   I found "menu" eventually (after wondering why "kendoMenu" or "Kendo.UI.KendoMenu" didn't work but without documentation  or a robust application this is pretty much guesswork for each widget unless I've missed something in the available documentation.

It's also come as a bit of a shock to discover the response to this user struggling to get declarative data binding working with the menu control http://www.kendoui.com/forums/framework/mvvm/source-binding-to-the-menu-widget-or-other-widgets.aspx Has the position changed since this was posted in April last year or is it still the case that none of the hierarchical widgets can't be data bound declaratively and the recommended way of dealing with this is as outlined in the answer (which seems a hell of a hack).

Thanks in advance for any response.

[Daniel]

Hello,

There is not a list of all roles but the value of the row attribute is basically the name of the widget with lower-case letters. The attributes for the widgets options can also be determined from the option names like described in this documentation topic.
The TreeView now supports binding to data by using the HierarchicalDataSource. I am afraid that the other widgets mentioned in the forum still does not support binding.

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[David Ocasio]

hey guys ... has this been updated in the documentations
specifically is there a place I can look up the declarative data attributes for a widget.

right now we have
configuration, fields, methods and events.
we should have one more for data attributes

for example right now I want to set the modal configuration of the window widget and i'm wondering if there is a data_modal attribute I can use but I don't have anywhere to look.

I prefer not to do it in the scripting since I use mvvm most of the time.

just saying

[Daniel]

Hello,

All configuration options for the widgets can be set with attributes. As mentioned previously, the data attributes are not listed for the widgets because they can be determined from the options names. 

Regards,
Daniel
Telerik