I saw some examples using Kendo UI autocomplete text box with templates. 

http://demos.kendoui.com/web/autocomplete/template.html
However I could not find an example that uses templates on auto completion using
kendo.observable

My approach is that I use MVVM observable to binds the data to an input box as below.

<div id="form-container">

    <h2>

        Advisors</h2>

    Select Advisor:

    <div class="autocomplete">

        <input id="div-template" data-role="autocomplete" data-text-field="AdvisorName" data-filter="contains" data-bind="source: advisorsSource, value: selectedAdvisor" />

    </div>

</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

    $(document).ready(function () {

        var viewModel = kendo.observable({

            advisorsSource: new kendo.data.DataSource({

                minLength: 2,

                template: '<tr>' +

	                    '<td>${ AdvisorCode }</dt><td>${ AdvisorName }</td><td>${ Organisation }</td>' +

        	          '</tr>',

                transport: {

                    type: "json",

                    serverFiltering: true,

                    read: "Home/Advisors",

                    parameterMap: function(options, operation) {

                        if (operation !== "read" && options.models) {

                            return {

                                models: kendo.stringify(options.models)

                            };

                        }

                        return {

                            prefix: options.filter.filters[0].value

                        };

                    }

                },

                schema: {

                    model: { id: "AdvisorCode" }

                }               

            })

        });

        kendo.bind($("#form-container"), viewModel);

    })

</script>

MVC Action:

public JsonResult Advisors(string prefix)        {

                      var list = new List<Advisor>()

                           {

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 002, AdvisorName = "Alex" , Organisation = "Blue Co"},

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 003, AdvisorName = "Foo" , Organisation = "Yellow Co"},

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 004, AdvisorName = "Smith", Organisation = "Green Co" },

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 005, AdvisorName = "David", Organisation = "Yellow Co" },

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 006, AdvisorName = "Alex" , Organisation = "Blue Co"},

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 007, AdvisorName = "Foo" , Organisation = "Yellow Co"},

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 008, AdvisorName = "Smith", Organisation = "Green Co" },

                               new Advisor { AdvisorCode = 009, AdvisorName = "David", Organisation = "Yellow Co" }

                           };

            return Json(list, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

        }

The auto completion works ok.  However it only shows  AdvisorName. It seems like my template does not work. I need to display multi-column (AdvisorCode, AdvisorName, Organisation) in the drop down, and the search should be based on any of these columns ( not just the AdvisorName). Can you please advise me on how to use the template and make the search based on multiple columns?

King Regards,
Raj

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