Dynamicaly add items to a Form and use Editor

[Timo]

Hi everyone,

I have a group of cascading Dropdownlists. After selecting the values I want to create a Form and add the choosen values as items to the form.

Some Items need to be a WYSIWYG-Editor, so I try to add the kendoEditor as custom editor:

var data = {};
var items = [];

        sender.dataItem.content.forEach((content) => {
            data[content.key] = content.text;

            if (content.type == 'TextArea') {
                items.push({
                    field: content.key,
                    label: content.displayName,
                    editor: function(container, options) {
                        $("<textarea class='k-textarea' name='" + content.key + "' required data-bind='value: " + content.key + "'></textarea>")
                            .appendTo(container)
                            .kendoEditor();
                    }
                });
            } else {
                items.push({
                    id: sender.dataItem.name + '_' + content.key,
                    field: content.key,
                    label: content.displayName,
                    validation: { required: true},
                    editor: content.type
                });
            }
        });

        var validationSuccess = $("#validation-success");
        $("#contentForm").kendoForm({
            orientation: "horizontal",
            formData: data,
            items: {
                type: "group",
                label: sender.dataItem.displayName,
                items: items
            },
            validateField: function (e) {
                validationSuccess.html("");
            },
            submit: function (e) {
                e.preventDefault();
                validationSuccess.html("<div class='k-messagebox k-messagebox-success'>Änderungen gespeichert");
            },
            clear: function (e) {
                validationSuccess.html("");
            }
        });

sender.dataItem looks like this:

{
      "name": "maintenance",
      "displayName":  "Wartungsseite",
      "content": [
      {
          "displayName": "Überschrift",
          "key": "header",
          "text": "Wartungsarbeiten",
          "type": "TextBox"
      },
      {
          "displayName": "Wartungstext",
          "key": "text",
          "text": "Wir arbeiten für Sie! <br /><br />Aktuell ist unser Kundenportal \"Meine WSW\" aufgrund von gesetzlichen Wartungsarbeiten für kurze Zeit offline.<br /><br />Gerne können Sie uns in der Zwischenzeit mit Angabe Ihrer Kunden- und Vertragskontonummer eine Email an <a href=\"mailto:[e-mail]\">meinewsw(at)wsw-online.de</a> schreiben. <br /><br /> <br />Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis!<br /><br />Ihr WSW-Team",
          "type": "TextArea"
      }
    ]
}

 

Though the items are added to the form, the item for key "text" is a simple input of type text and no editor.

Kind regards

Timo Wied

[Georgi Denchev]

Hello, Timo,

Thank you for the provided code snippets and details.

There is a very small typo in the Form configuration, the `items` property expects an array:

// Currently
        items: {
          type: "group",
          label: dataItem.displayName,
          items: items
        }

// Must be
        items: [{
          type: "group",
          label: dataItem.displayName,
          items: items
        }]

Dojo

https://dojo.telerik.com/@gdenchev/UKUvUraj 

Best Regards,
Georgi Denchev
Progress Telerik

[Timo]

OMG... Thank's a lot