I created a demo based on standard dropdown MVVM demo which shows the behavior. For some reason DropDownList doesn't set it's value binding destination in case data-value-field attribute is not present. If you uncomment my attribute
comment-data-value-field="ProductID"example works fine.
But it took me a while to figure out what's missing there. I can't understand why I must specify data-value-field even though I set data-value-primitive="false", so data-value-field isn't used in any case. Documentation also says that dataValueField could be absent.
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Hello,
By default the DropDownList uses the selected item from the data to update the View-Model field when the initial value is null. If you set data-value-primitive attribute to true it only changes the behavior so the View-Model field should be updated with the item value field. All the other configurations have to be the same so that the value is coming correctly from the datasource. Here is the documentation article about this behavior.
Hope this information will be helpful.
Regards,
Plamen
Telerik
By default the DropDownList uses the selected item from the data to update the View-Model field when the initial value is null. If you set data-value-primitive attribute to true it only changes the behavior so the View-Model field should be updated with the item value field. All the other configurations have to be the same so that the value is coming correctly from the datasource. Here is the documentation article about this behavior.
Hope this information will be helpful.
Regards,
Plamen
Telerik
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