Navigation Property for Kendo Grid

[Rao]

Do we have any navigation property for Kendo grid Datasource?

Eg:  
@(Html.Kendo().Grid(Model)
.Name("Grid")
.Columns(columns =>
{
columns.Bound(p => p.ProductID).Groupable(false);
columns.Bound(p => p.ProductName);
columns.Bound(p => p.UnitPrice);
columns.Bound(p => p.UnitsInStock);
})
.Groupable()
.Pageable()
.Sortable()
.Scrollable()
.Filterable()
.DataSource(dataSource => dataSource
.Ajax()
.Read(read => read.Action("Data", "API"))
)
)

From the API service, we are getting the actual data enclosed in some other object.

Our entity structure is like

Data [Class]

1. Error Message [Property]
2. Employees[Property]
3. Status [Property]

I want to set grid's data source as the Employees(property) . 

Please help.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Rao,

 This isn't supported out of the box by the Kendo Grid for ASP.NET MVC. When configured for ajax binding the action method should return a DataSourceResult instance as JSON. More info is available in the ajax binding help topic.

 There are two ways to overcome this:

1. Use the JavaScript version of the Kendo UI grid and configure it's data source to expect results from the "Employees" field of the response. This is done via the schema.data data source option.
2. In the action method which returns the grid data ("Data", "API") return the Employees:
   public ActionResult Data([DataSourceRequest] DataSourceRequest request)
   {
              var result = GetResult();
              return Json(result.Employees.ToDataSourceResult(request));
   }

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
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