Invoke AutoComplete dataSource refresh

[Paul Russo]

I'm using Kendo UI AutoComplete linked up to a Web Method.  It works great. 
What I am trying to do now is to have a link on the page and when clicked it will populate the autocomplete input value and then refresh the datasource based on that value.  

I can easily populate the autocomplete value with $("#search_input").data("kendoAutoComplete").value(name);  However, the data does not refresh when I do this, it still has the resultset from the previous search. How can an invoke the AutoComplete to behave as if I typed in the new value, so that the datasource result set refreshes based on the new input value?

   $("#search_input").kendoAutoComplete({
            minLength: 1,
            dataSource:
            {
                serverFiltering: true,
                serverPaging: true,
                pageSize: 20,
                transport:
                {
                    read:
                    {
                        url: "Default.aspx/GetSearchAutoComplete",
                        data: function () {
                            return { Param: $("#search_input").data("kendoAutoComplete").value() };
                        },
                        contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
                        type: 'POST',
                        dataType: 'json'
                    },
                    parameterMap: function (options) {
                        return kendo.stringify(options);
                    }
                },
                schema:
                {
                    data: function (data) {
                        searchData = data.d
                        return data.d;
                    }
                }
            },
            dataTextField: "Name",
            dataValueField: "Id"
            select: function (e) {
                searchSelectedIndex = e.item.index();
                SearchSelect();
            }
        });

[Paul Russo]

I was able to resolve the issue by coding separate call to the same WebMethod.  This in turn upates the same result set from that the autocomplete populates.  Turns out it wasn't such a big deal and probably the better way to do it. 

[Darcy]

I was able to view it and it's awesome.