Hello Tom,
Indeed children can be only string and you can reference only one field. However you can define
parse function and normalize/merge those fields into one.
Here is a quick example for the idea:
http://dojo.telerik.com/@rusev/iZAR.
Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
Telerik
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