Property selected in SelectedListItem is not working after pass it to DDL control

[Mateusz]

Hi 

I have DropDownList control which looks: 

@(Html.Kendo().DropDownListFor(m => m.VatCategoryId)
               .Name("VatCategoryId")
               .DataTextField("Text")
               .DataValueField("Value")
               .AutoBind(false)
               .DataSource(source =>
               {
                   source.Read(read =>
                   {
                       read.Action("GetVatCategoriesDefault", "VAT").Data("getCountry").Type(HttpVerbs.Get);
                   });
               })

In read method I am passing a list with categories. Some I want one of the item be selected. So I set property Selected = true in SlectedListItem. 

Data which view is receiving are good but the default category is not selected. 

What could be wrong? 

 

 

 

 

[Nencho]

Hello Mateusz,

I am afraid that the DropDownList cannot directly communicate with the dynamically assigned datasource and read the object's list properties (selected in this case) and perform action base on their values.
 
This is why, I would suggest you to handle the dataBound event of the control an iterate though the items collection, in order to find the item with the Selected property set to true and set it as selected.

Regards,
Nencho
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