I just stumbled across this KendoUI and am very intrigued, but I will admit I have not yet downloaded it so bear with me on this total noob question:
In the type of applications I am constantly requested to create, I need to deal with putting in large drop down lists (5000+ items) within the rows of a grid.
The challenge using HTML has been that you either have to send the whole page with the entire content of the drop downs in every row or try to incorporate some form of AJAX on the on-click event of the drop down (which causes a round-trip hit on the server).
The problem is that list content doesn't change between rows, so the user is constantly dealing with either slow loading pages, or server hits as they tab through the rows. Both of which are annoying.
So, my question is: does somehow KendoUI provide some capabilities for re-using drop down list content within grids to alleviate this issue?
In the type of applications I am constantly requested to create, I need to deal with putting in large drop down lists (5000+ items) within the rows of a grid.
The challenge using HTML has been that you either have to send the whole page with the entire content of the drop downs in every row or try to incorporate some form of AJAX on the on-click event of the drop down (which causes a round-trip hit on the server).
The problem is that list content doesn't change between rows, so the user is constantly dealing with either slow loading pages, or server hits as they tab through the rows. Both of which are annoying.
So, my question is: does somehow KendoUI provide some capabilities for re-using drop down list content within grids to alleviate this issue?
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Hello Steven,
Rosen
the Telerik team
Although, there is not such functionality out-of-the-box you may try using a single DataSource component to populate all of the KendoUI DropDownList.
Regards,Rosen
the Telerik team
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