Kendo Binding XML data to Menu

[Brandon]

I asked a question on stackoverflow about binding a xml data file to a Kendo UI Menu. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23998479/binding-xml-data-to-kendo-ui-menu-dynamically

I was wondering if Kendo supports binding to a xml file dynamically. If so, could you also create multiple menus with hierarchy structures?

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hi Brandon,

The Kendo UI Menu does not support data binding, so it is not possible to bind an XML service to the menu. You can manually create a data structure that you can pass to the menu, as shown in this example:

http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/menu/images

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik

 

 

[Brandon]

Thank you Kiril for the quick response! So, is there an alternative way which will allow me to create a menu dynamically?

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hi Brandon,

As the menu does not support data binding there is no built-in solution to create such. If you check this demo you can see that the menu is initialized with JavaScript and not pure HTML, so if you parse your XML and create similar structure, then you might achieve something like dynamic menu creation.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik

 

 

[Ashok]

yes.... same problem i have.have got solution for that

[Hemant]

Hi Ashok, what is the solution you have used? Please share.

[Hemant]

Hi Nikolov

Can you please post a sample of how you would insert the data from the parsed XML into the dataSource that is inside the kendoMenu structure?

<script>
$("#menu-images").kendoMenu({
    dataSource: [

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hello Hemant,

An example of using a dataSource in a Kendo UI Menu is available here:

http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/menu#configuration-dataSource

Please note that it only supports JavaScript array of object, and not XML.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik