I've been looking at the licensed source distribution (2017.1.118, retrieved with bower), and had a couple questions/comments.

• It looks like (aside from jquery) the third-party .js files that come with the minified release package aren't included?  This would be "angular", "jszip" and "pako_deflate".  It would seem that if working with source, one would have to check in the release package to see what was included there?  Might there be a case to include these somewhere in the source package, or perhaps a reference to the versions included with the release package?

• The "kendo-ui/bower.json" file has the entry "version": "2016.3.1202" (not a public release?), although the js folder has the expected source code for "v2017.1.118".  Did this file just get missed for updating?  I don't think it causes a problem, although the "jquery" dependency has ">=1.9.1 <=2.1.1" and you may have intended this to be "<= 2.1.4" for the current 2.1.x release?
• Don't forget to update your Javascript Prerequisites doc page to include table entries for 2017.1.118!  Also, Angular 1.6 was recently released; are there any notes on using it with Kendo?  BTW, one of your other Angular articles seems to suggest that the Bad Things that the Prerequisites page warns about with "ng-model" and 1.5 actually started with 1.4.9?  Perhaps the Prerequisites warning should be updated?  I notice the release packages bundles Angular 1.4.6; was there a reason to not include 1.4.7 or 1.4.8?
• The release package has jQuery 1.12.3 - any reason this wasn't 1.12.4 (May 2016)?  The included "pako_deflate.js" is 1.0.1 - upstream is 1.0.4 and I notice that 1.0.2 "Fixed nasty bug in deflate ... which could cause broken data in some rare cases."

I have grid working with a detail row. The following code does not fade in the row:

 function detailInit(e) {
 var detailRow = e.detailRow;
 debugger;
 detailRow.find(".grid").kendoGrid({
  animation: {
   open: { effects: "fadeIn" }
  }
 });
 }

We've recently undertaken an upgrade from Kendo UI 2013.2.716 to 2016.3.1118 and we've noticed some issues for our drop down lists. Some of our scenarios call for drop down lists with empty ("[]") data sources until other operations cause them to be filled, or they remain hidden.

Upon changing versions we've noticed that upon the initWidget method being called for that drop down list, the data source is being parsed as a string ("[]") when previously it was being recognised as an empty array. Some investigation and comparison of the two versions led me to a particular regular expression that had changed between the versions in parseOption:

2013 - jsonFormatRegExp = /^\{(\d+)(:[^\}]+)?\}/

2016 - jsonFormatRegExp = /^\{(\d+)(:[^\}]+)?\}|^\[[A-Za-z_]*\]$/

In 2013 this was not matching the empty array "[]", causing the code path to return it from a function (well, an "evil") to the initWidget method - now that it's matching, however, it's passing the string value back which is causing errors later in the code with the [] being used in getter names. Is there another way we should be populating this field? How can we get this version to recognise this value as the empty array it was intended to be?

 <input class=" roadmap" data-option-label="Select" data-role="dropdownlist" data-source="[]" data-text-field="Text" data-value-field="Value" id="xxx" name="yyy" style="width:100%;" type="text" value="" />

The getExtraData() method runs the first time the grid is loaded. I want to refresh the grid later, so I use this c

The method getExtraData() has changed, so when it refreshes I want it to call this method again to attach the data to my request. However the method does not run even though the grid is refreshed.

How can I make sure that it runs every time the grid is updated?

For batch mode (inCell editing), when a value is changed in a cell, is there an event that can be used where I can know what field changed and what the previous value was?

I asked about this several years ago, so I'm asking now again in 2017 hoping you have an answer.

During user operations, we refresh the datasource contents and reload the treelist.  If our users have a row selected, we need to reselect that row.  If a child row was last selected, we need to expand its parent and select the child.  I've looked through the docs, but all it shows is how to select a row based on the index; I also see nothing on how to expand the parent of a child row.

You can see my code in this dojo:  http://dojo.telerik.com/epOQe/3

After running it, select a row and then click the Refresh button; the point is that the selected row should be selected after the refresh *and* if be visible (e.g., if it's a child node, the parent should be expanded as well).  The selected row remains selected, but if it's a child row, the parent row won't be expanded.  (I based this off the code found here.)

So my questions are thus:

1) Why won't the parent row expand?

2) Is there a way to automatically expand the parent when a child is selected?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there,

I'm having a problem with Kendo Grid UI and setOptions. When I setOptions, hidden fields have an extra display:none attribute added. I've attached an image of my options variable (data.selectedGridState) compared with the the getOptions value directly after the setOptions command. I believe they should be identical. Could you advise?

My code looks like this:
var selectedGrid = $(jQuerySelectors.selectedMembersGrid).data("kendoGrid");
selectedGrid.setOptions(JSON.parse(data.selectedGridState));

Kind regards,
Karl

Hi --

We have a grid with an action button in the column. When the user clicks the button this code executes.

The selected row index value is now in the selectedIndex variable.

I would like to then be able to do grid.select(selectedIndex +1).

However, when I do this the selected row is the one above as opposed to below the currently selected row.

How can I achieve what I am looking to do?

Thanks

Rich