At the first rendering of a page I would like to specify and process the selection of a default autocomplete value. I thought this code might work, it doesn't:
$(document).ready(
function
() {
var
ac = $(
"#autoComplete"
).data(
"kendoAutoComplete"
);
var
target =
"170035"
;
ac.search(target)
.then(ac.select(target))
.then(ac.trigger(
"change"
))
;
})
AutoComplete search() does not return a promise. A promise would be needed for the .then() chaining I want to do. For comparison, DataSource read() does return a promise and can be part of a chain.
Q: Can you suggest a different approach for search and select ?
Thanks, Richard