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I just stumbled across this KendoUI and am very intrigued, but I will admit I have not yet downloaded it so bear with me on this total noob question:

In the type of applications I am constantly requested to create, I need to deal with putting in large drop down lists (5000+ items) within the rows of a grid.

The challenge using HTML has been that you either have to send the whole page with the entire content of the drop downs in every row or try to incorporate some form of AJAX on the on-click event of the drop down (which causes a round-trip hit on the server).

The problem is that list content doesn't change between rows, so the user is constantly dealing with either slow loading pages, or server hits as they tab through the rows.   Both of which are annoying.

So, my question is: does somehow KendoUI provide some capabilities for re-using drop down list content within grids to alleviate this issue?

Grid

answered on 01 Dec 2011

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Styling ignored in panel contents

I have a very basic PanelBar and I'm defining the contents of each panel within a div. Any styling I apply to the HTML within the div appears to be ignored. Here is an example:

<div>

<ul id="panelbar">

<li class="k-state-active"><span class="k-link k-state-selected panelbar-header">Client

Information</span>

<div style="padding: 10px;">

Contract State: <strong>@Model.ContractState</strong><br />

Contract Type: <strong>@Model.ContractType</strong><br />

Effective Date: <strong>@Model.EffectiveDate.ToShortDateString()</strong><br />

Renewal Date: <strong>@Model.RenewalDate.ToShortDateString()</strong><br />

</div>

</li>

</ul>

</div>

even the <strong></strong> tags around the text objects is being completely ignored. I tried enclosing these within a <span> with styling and that didn't work either.

Is there something I need to do to make sure that my styles/formatting isn't overridden? Thanks.

UPDATE: Looks like the default font size setting on the panel contents was negating the styling. I changed the font-size on the div tag and everything seems to be working okay now. Thanks

PanelBar

asked on 01 Dec 2011

0 answers

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Dynamically bind DropDownlist

Hi,

I wanna dynamically bind dropdownlist from the method of codebehind (C#) ? Can you please provide sample to bind datasource from code behind or return values from the method of code behind and assign to the dropdownlist.

Thank you,
Mangesh

DropDownList

asked on 30 Nov 2011

6 answers

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Pass a value to something else onChange

In the OnChange event, I need to pass the "datakey" (for a lack of a better word) to another object. Problem is the ID field isn't actually visible in the grid...

Suggestions?...is there a way to do a hidden column?

Grid

answered on 30 Nov 2011

0 answers

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Will analogue backbone?

The question in the title of the theme:)

General Discussions

asked on 29 Nov 2011

3 answers

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Links opened using javascript?

I'm using the menu widget in a jquery mobile application.
JQuery mobile enhance all links, that theire content is loaded using an ajax request instead a normal post.

Either this isn't working with the menu widget. Is the menu widget changing the url by javascript? How can I prevent this behaviour and enforce the widget that it uses the default browser behaviour or at least, to prevent kendo ui from handling the link and doing the forward myself?

Menu

answered on 29 Nov 2011

4 answers

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Possible to filter Data Source bound to XML?

I'm trying to apply a filter to a Data Source that is bound to XML. Everything works fine with everything else and all works as expected - all but filtering.

Too simplify things posting, if you look at the xml-data.html sample in the Data Source folder, how would you apply a filter to search for any book that contains 'CSS3' on the Title XML element? I've added server filtering to the Data Source.

Is it possible to filter with a XML scheme?

Data Source

answered on 29 Nov 2011

2 answers

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Binding to JSON data

I'm trying to use the datasource to populate a grid, binding to some JSON data , supplied via an aspx page. I'm not sure if the data is in the correct format (although it is valid JSON sysntax) , or if I need to alter the definition of the datasource, but quite frankly I find the documentation far from helpful.

Do I need to change my code that's producing the JSON data (it's using a LINQ source, exporting a list to JSON using the jayrock library), or do I need to define the fields in the datasource? If so, how?

I've got so far:-

<script>

var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({

transport: {

read: {

url: "http://localhost:50331/GetPatList.aspx?srch=Benz",

dataType: "json",

data: {

}

});

</script>

But so far nothing happens ( is there an easy way to see if a datasource is getting any data without first binding it to anything - or a good way to debug it?).

The JSON data I'm providing in my aspx page looks like (it's fictional data for development purposes):-

[{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Alabaster","dOB":"1954-09-30T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Alabaster","dOB":"1940-01-03T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Alabaster","dOB":"1925-03-15T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Alphonso","dOB":"1960-12-21T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Alphonso","dOB":"1972-02-04T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Andrew","dOB":"1985-07-18T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Andrew","dOB":"1939-09-14T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Andrew","dOB":"1961-06-25T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Andrew","dOB":"1948-12-31T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Anya","dOB":"1978-02-01T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Anya","dOB":"1924-08-12T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Aphrodite","dOB":"1932-03-11T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arbuthnot","dOB":"1930-07-19T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Ariarna","dOB":"1973-10-14T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Ariarna","dOB":"1946-02-04T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Armand","dOB":"1956-09-14T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Armand","dOB":"1976-06-05T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Armarni","dOB":"2010-01-04T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Armarni","dOB":"2000-09-16T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnie","dOB":"1924-08-21T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnie","dOB":"1998-11-23T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnie","dOB":"1972-05-31T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnie","dOB":"1922-09-08T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnold","dOB":"1980-07-09T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arnold","dOB":"1967-08-28T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arthurs","dOB":"2002-07-11T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Arthurs","dOB":"1947-06-09T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Banzai","dOB":"1967-11-29T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Banzai","dOB":"1941-09-17T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Banzai","dOB":"1964-12-09T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Basil","dOB":"1994-02-16T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Basil","dOB":"1969-07-27T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bethany","dOB":"1975-12-11T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Biff","dOB":"1936-08-23T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Biff","dOB":"1969-10-24T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Biff","dOB":"1974-01-19T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bongo","dOB":"1960-02-08T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bongo","dOB":"1969-09-08T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bongo","dOB":"1948-08-01T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bongo","dOB":"1991-08-15T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bongo","dOB":"1942-11-03T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brenda","dOB":"1946-10-20T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brenda","dOB":"1947-01-22T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brenda","dOB":"1989-08-29T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brett","dOB":"1941-10-16T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brick","dOB":"2007-05-08T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Brick","dOB":"1988-09-29T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bruce","dOB":"1921-01-13T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Bruce","dOB":"2010-03-01T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Ceejay","dOB":"2000-08-25T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Ceejay","dOB":"1979-10-08T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Cesarie","dOB":"2010-01-02T00:00:00.0000000+00:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Cesarie","dOB":"1938-04-15T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Charles","dOB":"1940-07-24T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Charles","dOB":"1958-08-28T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Charlotte","dOB":"1972-04-26T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"},{"surName":"Benzene","foreName":"Chelsea","dOB":"1957-10-17T00:00:00.0000000+01:00"}]

Thanks

Data Source

answered on 28 Nov 2011

18 answers

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How important is IE6 support?

Supporting IE6 in Kendo UI requires numerous hacks and countless hours of specialized testing. If we had to choose between supporting IE6 or spending more time investing in new features, what would be the general preference?

Personally, for the type of development that Kendo UI targets (new projects, largely HTML5, etc.), I doubt IE6 is a common browser target. But I know IE6 is not yet 100% dead, and my perspective is biased.

What do you think? Should IE6 support remain in Kendo UI past the beta? Or should IE7 become the new IE6 for Kendo UI v1?

I'm curious...

General Discussions

answered on 28 Nov 2011

1 answer

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Groupable labels

Hi!
I am using a grid with the very nice dnd grouping function. I have one request/ suggestion:
It seems that the group names displayed are those of the data field rather than the data title.
Is it possible to configure this? or would you consider changing it in a future release?

Obviously, I could name the data fields to correspond with the title, but our application will be localized, and one of the languages has special chars that are not allowed in variable names.

Grid

answered on 28 Nov 2011