I am trying to set up a datasource with the code at the end of the post but the data isn't sent to the server (xmlstring is a string of the xml to be included as the body)  I always get content length zero.
Is it possible to send an xml string as the body of a POST?  I do this from desktop applications and Flash (actionscript) in a similar way but can't seem to get any results with Kendo.  Any help would be appreciated.  

As am FYI this works but I'm guessing I can't do this with the Kendo datasource (  $.ajax({

				    type: 'POST',
				    url: "http://rest.site.comm/rest/isc/packagecontents",
				    data: xmlstring,
				    dataType: "xml")

Thanks,
Jeff

  var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({
                        transport: {
                        read: {
                        type: "POST",
                            // specify the XML file to read. The same as read: { url: "books.xml" }
                          url: "http:/rest.site.com/rest/isc/packagecontents/" ,   
                            dataType: "xml", 
                           data: xmlstring
                        } 

I was having trouble finding a dataSource example for CRUD against a REST based xml service.  I found pieces of the following solution in various posts. Some of this is obvious, but some is not, especially to someone new to kendo and/or jquery.  In case anyone else is looking for something similar, I thought I would post the following example.  This configures a datasource to create/read from an xml REST service using GET for read and PUT for create with an xml document as the payload.  If anyone else has a better solution than the parameterMap to send an xml doc in the payload, please let me know.  Hope this saves someone a headache :)

ds = new kendo.data.dataSource({
transport:{
read: {
url: "/apis/items"
},
create: {
url: "/apis/items/create",
// in another thread, a kendo admin posted that these transport
// apis map to $.ajax, so we can directly add most jquery.ajax options here
type: "PUT",
dataType: "xml",
contentType: "text/xml",
// Must set processData to false if you want to send
// raw data in the request body, see the jquery documentation for more info
processData: false,
},
parameterMap: function (data, type){
// You can pre-process data by mapping a function
// with these parameters to this property.  The first param is in
// the kendo online documentation, the second is not.

if(type === "create"){
return '<item><name>' + data.name + '</name></item>';
}
}
},
schema: {
type: "xml",
data: "/items/item",
model: {
id: "id",
fields: {
id: "@id",
name: "name/text()"
}
}
},
pageSize:10
});

// Now you can add by passing a model w/o the id property to dataSource.add()
ds.add({name: "test"});

// Calling ds.sync() will issue the server request we defined in transport.create to the server.
// the payload will contain <item><name>test</name></item>
ds.sync();

// Hope this helps.  

I found the awesome chart like 'Performance Benchmark' : url(http://demos.kendoui.com/dataviz/dashboards/high-performance.html).
but i can't find how to bind a data and to make an active chart. i want to know both logic (data binding, active real time chart).

I have a very peculiar problem. One of my client requests goes to the HomeController and successfully gets the data. The second never gets reached

$("#ResidualRec") 

What could be wrong? 


This is the webpage value.

The one that works is as follows: 

Hello,

i have a little problem here.

I have a column with this time format: 27.12.2012 14:49

When somebody wants to group it it should only grouped by date but without time.

How can I implement this?

Thanks.

Greetings
Stefan

I've created a multi select template that allows for selection of values in a combobox. How can you prevent the combobox from closing when you select? Is there a close override event?

We are developing a mobile app for which we plan to use phonegap.com to generate a native application for iOS and Android (and others). Other than the mobile controls, what other Kendo UI controls are compatible with PhoneGap/native applications? Specifically, what can we use from the Kendo Web and Kendo DataViz controls? What is the result if you attempt to use an unsupported control and compile using phonegap?

Hi, Can I get an example that actually post json object/json string as parameter in the request body please?
I did went through the forum, couldn't find one example, the nearest is someone want to send raw xml through request body, but no futher discussion about that exacept suggesting extending object rather than string. 
the other one I saw was using paramMap send empty request body.

there is no such example in your website, the example is used to send parameters in simple query string which is not json as request body.

And may I just suggest that can you focus more on the documentation please? the documentation has no possible values for configurations. leaving people to guess.

I think good documentation is a huge time saver for everyone. 

For the life of me, I can not figure out why this is happening.

Below I have a pretty simple grid wired to a Read and a Destroy event.  The Read works.  If I press delete and then save the grid the wrong webservice is called.

If batch editing it turned on then when I press save the READ event is called (instead of the Destroy event). And I get the error that I can't stuff an enumeriable list of objects into the ID field of the Read service.

If batch editing is turned off then the CREATE event is called! And since I haven't created one I get a 404.

That's weird man.  Any ideas?

I only want users to be able to leave my autocomplete field empty, or select an item from the list - I don't want them able to enter their own "new" item. How can I force a valid selection (either by clearing the invalid data, or not allowing the focus to leave the control, or some other variation)?