ListBox Reordering Is Not Working

Environment

Product	Progress® Kendo UI® ListBox for jQuery
Operating System	Windows 7 64bit
Browser	Google Chrome
Browser Version	Latest

Description

I want to use the ListBox to reorder items in a bound data source but although the items of the ListBox visually reorder on the screen, these changes are not reflected in the data source behind it.

How can I get the displayed order in sync with the data source? 

Suggested Workarounds

The Kendo UI ListBox does not provide a built-in solution for achieving this behavior. However, you can still work around the issue.

Apply custom logic on the reorder event of the widget by manually removing the item from one position and then inserting it in the new one. Get the index of the item with the data source indexOf() method and insert it with its insert() method. Adding the k-selected class to the reordered listbox items preserves the selection:

html

<script>
    function onReorder(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var dataSource = e.sender.dataSource;

        var dataItem = e.dataItems[0]
        var index = dataSource.indexOf(dataItem) + e.offset;
        dataSource.remove(dataItem);
        dataSource.insert(index, dataItem);
        e.sender.wrapper.find("[data-uid='" + dataItem.uid + "']").addClass("k-selected");
    }
</script>

    <div id="listbox"></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
			var items = [
			  { id: 1, text: "Item 1" },
			  { id: 2, text: "Item 2" },
			  { id: 3, text: "Item 3" },
			  { id: 4, text: "Item 4" },
			  { id: 5, text: "Item 5" }
			];

			$(document).ready(function(e) {
			  $("#listbox").kendoListBox({
			    draggable: true,
			    dataSource: items,
			    dataTextField: "text",
			    dataValueField: "id",
			    toolbar: {
			      position: "right",
			      tools: ["moveUp", "moveDown"]
			    },
			    reorder: function(e) {
			      e.preventDefault();
			      var dataSource = e.sender.dataSource;

			      var dataItem = e.dataItems[0]
			      var index = dataSource.indexOf(dataItem) + e.offset;
			      dataSource.remove(dataItem);
			      dataSource.insert(index, dataItem);
			      e.sender.wrapper.find("[data-uid='" + dataItem.uid + "']").addClass("k-selected");
			      console.log("First item ID is now: " + dataSource.data()[0].id);
			    }
			  });
			});
    </script>