Wolfgang Kamir
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Wolfgang Kamir
asked on 01 Oct 2012, 06:17 AM
Hi dear forum members and support team!
Is it a customary scenario to share a datasource between multiple widgets?
In my scenario it is possible to enter several different Addresses - which all have a Country and Province to be selected (depending on each other)
I was trying to setup just one _countryDataSource and one _provinceDataSource.
I have two issues now...
1) Once any Country-Combobox (kendo-combobox) has a changed selection, I want to "refresh()" the according Province-Combobox. (How would I go about that?)
2) How could I now identiy, which Province-Combobox made the request to the shared DataSource?
I am pretty sure that it would be easier to just "not share" the DataSources but build up one for each ComboBox.... would this be a better approach? Or is there an easy way to achieve my requirements?
Also: How resource intensive is it to build up a DataSource?... because if it is leightweight and not really strains the resources it would not make sense to share DataSources at all....
Please note that the Cascading-Combo-Boxes samples do not really apply to my scenario.... I need a little more control, since it should also be possible to enter a custom country (which is not - yet - in the list) or a custom province.
Thanks you very much for any help!
Kind regards,
Wolfgang
Is it a customary scenario to share a datasource between multiple widgets?
In my scenario it is possible to enter several different Addresses - which all have a Country and Province to be selected (depending on each other)
I was trying to setup just one _countryDataSource and one _provinceDataSource.
I have two issues now...
1) Once any Country-Combobox (kendo-combobox) has a changed selection, I want to "refresh()" the according Province-Combobox. (How would I go about that?)
2) How could I now identiy, which Province-Combobox made the request to the shared DataSource?
I am pretty sure that it would be easier to just "not share" the DataSources but build up one for each ComboBox.... would this be a better approach? Or is there an easy way to achieve my requirements?
Also: How resource intensive is it to build up a DataSource?... because if it is leightweight and not really strains the resources it would not make sense to share DataSources at all....
Please note that the Cascading-Combo-Boxes samples do not really apply to my scenario.... I need a little more control, since it should also be possible to enter a custom country (which is not - yet - in the list) or a custom province.
Thanks you very much for any help!
Kind regards,
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Kamir
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answered on 05 Oct 2012, 09:10 AM
... nevermind.
It seems best to just have a dedicated dataSource for every widget. Works fine.
Also to refresh a combobox from the assigned datasource (which sends an ajax request in my case) I just had to call _comboBoxWidget.dataSource.read().
The very nice thing about that is that I could even hand over parameters to the 'read()' method of the datasource.
Kind regards,
Wolfgang
It seems best to just have a dedicated dataSource for every widget. Works fine.
Also to refresh a combobox from the assigned datasource (which sends an ajax request in my case) I just had to call _comboBoxWidget.dataSource.read().
The very nice thing about that is that I could even hand over parameters to the 'read()' method of the datasource.
Kind regards,
Wolfgang