When kendodraggable is enabled, the cell value can not be set on the grid
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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <title>Kendo UI Snippet</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/styles/kendo.common.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/styles/kendo.rtl.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.2.607/styles/kendo.silver.min.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/styles/kendo.mobile.all.min.css"> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.3.min.js"></script> <script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/styles/kendo.default.min.css"><script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/js/angular.min.js"></script><script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2017.3.1026/js/jszip.min.js"></script></head><body><div id="grid"/> <script> var data = [ { id: 1, text: "text 1", position: 0 }, { id: 2, text: "text 2", position: 1 }, { id: 3, text: "text 3", position: 2 }]var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: data, schema: { model: { id: "id", fields: { id: { type: "number" }, text: { type: "string" }, position: { type: "number" } } } } });var grid = $("#grid").kendoGrid({ dataSource: dataSource, sortable: true, scrollable: false, editable: true, columns: ["id", "text", "position"] }).data("kendoGrid");grid.table.kendoDraggable({ filter: "tbody > tr", group: "gridGroup", threshold: 10011, drag: function(e) { $(e.target).closest("tbody").find("tr").css("background-color", "white"); $(e.target).closest("tr").css("background-color", "red"); }, hint: function(e) { return $('<div class="k-grid k-widget"><table><tbody><tr>' + e.html() + '</tr></tbody></table></div>'); }}); </script></body></html>