Drag and Drop is not working when TreeView has link items

[Richard Koslik]

I have a partial view that receives a model filled with data that can be bound to the Kendo TreeView like this:

  @(Html.Kendo().TreeView()
            .Name((string)ViewBag.TreeName)
            .DragAndDrop(true)
            .BindTo(Model, (NavigationBindingFactory<TreeViewItem> mappings) =>
            {
              mappings.For<MenuItemModel>(binding => binding
                .ItemDataBound((item, model) =>
                {
                  item.Text = model.Text;
                  item.ActionName = model.Action;
                  item.ControllerName = model.Controller;
                  item.ImageUrl = model.Icon;
                  if (model.Items == null || model.Items.Count == 0)
                  {
                    item.Id = model.Action;
                  }
                  item.Enabled = true;
                })
                .Children(model => model.Items)
              );
            })
            .Animation(true)
            .AutoScroll(true)
            .Events(e =>
            {
                e.Drag("MainMenuDrag").Drop("MainMenuDrop").DragStart("MainMenuDragStart");
            })
  )

My problem is that the Drag & Drop functionality only works when the icon of a treeview item is dragged. When the text is dragged the event handlers do not even get called. Is this intended? If yes then, is there a work around for this issue?
I need the links (anchor tags) because I have an event handler bound to them that requires both the url and the id properties from the dataItem.

[Dimitar]

Hello,

I was able to reproduce the issue and track it down to Q3 2015, when it was introduced. I am afraid that currently there is no workaround for it. I've logged a public issue for it, where you may track its progress and add comments. As a small token of gratitude for reporting it to us, I updated your Telerik points.

Regards,
Dimitar
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