multiselect ajax and displaying selected values

[William Dunn]

I have an ajax multiselect with autobind of false.  When returning to the page I would like my selected value(s) to display when the page loads, but they currently do not display until I click in the mulitselect.

Is there anything I can do to make this happen? 

I've attached a sample project.

@(Html.Kendo().MultiSelectFor(x => x.ReportOwner)
    .DataTextField("Name")
    .DataValueField("Pid")
    .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
        .Read(read => read.Action("_RelatedEmployees", "AdvancedSearch"))
        .ServerFiltering(false)
        .Events(events => events.Error("onError"))
    )
    .AutoBind(false)
    .Placeholder("Select report owners...")
)

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello William,

 
The desired functionality is available in the the last internal build (2013.1.411). You will need to pass the selected data items (not just the values) to the Value method of the wrapper:

@(Html.Kendo().MultiSelectFor(x => x.ReportOwner)
    .DataTextField("Name")
    .DataValueField("Pid")
    .DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
        .Read(read => read.Action("_RelatedEmployees", "AdvancedSearch"))
        .ServerFiltering(false)
        .Events(events => events.Error("onError"))
    )
    .AutoBind(false)
    .Placeholder("Select report owners...")
    .Value(List<[your model]>)
)

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[William Dunn]

Much appreciated... Thank You.

[William Dunn]

I have finally got around to implementing this with the latest version of Kendo.

When I return to the page the previously selected items do appear.

When I click on the multiselect it does not call the read method again to give me the other values to select.

I have attached a sample project.

thanks

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello William,

 
Currently, this is not supported. The serverFiltering needs to be true and the end user should type something in the input in order to initiate filtering.

We will improve current behavior in the next internal build due the next week.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
Telerik