Set selectedvalue combobox

[Tim]

I'm using a combobox to create a searchable list of employees from where the user needs to select one.
If there is a false name entered they should get a warning (which already works) and the first person in the list needs to be selected. I Was trying to do that like this:

<div class="editor-field edit-project">
(Html.Kendo().ComboBox()
.Name("PersonId")
.HtmlAttributes(new { @class = "input-project" })
.DataTextField("Fullname").DataValueField("Id")
.DataSource(source => { source.Read(read => { read.Action("GetPeople", "Project"); }); })
.MinLength(3)
.Filter("contains")
.Events(ev => ev.Change("checkcombobox")))
</div>

And in javascript i'm doing this:

function checkcombobox(e)
{
    if (this.value() && this.selectedIndex == -1) {
        alert('Gelieve een geldige persoon te selecteren');
        var cbx = $("#PersonId").data("kendoComboBox").Selected(0);

    }
}

Could anyone help?

Thanks in advance

[Ramoji]

Tim,

Try this code . It worked for me.

function onComboChanged(e)
{
    if (this.value() && this.selectedIndex == -1) {
        this._filterSource({
            value: "",
            field: this.options.dataTextField,
            operator: "contains"
        });
        this.select(1);
    }
}

Thanks,
Ramoji

[Tim]

Ramoji,

Thank you so much for your answer!

Tim