I've been trying to get my comboboxes cascading correctly using the guide on the Cascading ComboBoxes page and I think the information there may be incorrect. I wanted to use the approach where I set the parameters manually and copied the code at the very bottom of the page:
This doesn't work, since I believe parentID: $("#parent").val() is interpreted at set up time, rather than when cascading. The correct code for the data portion would be:
In the answer there's a reference to the "How it works" section - I couldn't find this, could a link be provided if it still exists?
$("#child").kendoComboBox({ cascadeFrom: "parent", dataTextField: "childName", dataValueField: "childID", dataSource: { transport: { read: { url: "", data: { parentID: $("#parent").val() } } } }});This doesn't work, since I believe parentID: $("#parent").val() is interpreted at set up time, rather than when cascading. The correct code for the data portion would be:
data: function() { parentID: $("#parent").val()}In the answer there's a reference to the "How it works" section - I couldn't find this, could a link be provided if it still exists?