Setting Value programmatically in KendoUI multiselect - kendo-ui

Question

I have my KendoUI MultiSelect widget initialized like this:
$("#" + key).kendoMultiSelect({
placeholder: placeholder,
dataTextField: dataText,
dataValueField: dataValue,
filter: "contains",
autoBind: false,
dataSource: {
type: "jsonp",
transport: {
read: {
url: urlValue
}
},
error: function(e) {
console.log(e);
}
},
value: GetSavedJSONObject(key),
//value: [
//{ Name: "Chang", Id: 2 },
// { Name: "Uncle Bob's Organic Dried Pears", Id: 7 }
//],
select: removeMark,
change: multiselect_checkForChanges,
autoClose: isAutoClose
});
where GetSavedJSONObject(key) is an array of objects like this:
[Object { Id=1, Name="AA"}, Object { Id=2, Name="BB"}]
The issue I'm facing is when the page loads, I can see "AA" and "BB" in the multiselect widget and no call is made to the url. However, when I attempt to add more items to the widget, there are none to be added because the widget thinks the only items available are the items I specified in the "value" field of the widget during initialization.
In the Server Filtering demo, you will see that the example sets the value of the widget just like I did but when you try to add more items to the widget, then a call is made to the url for more data and the widget opens.
I'm sure this is user error but I just need some pointers on what to try next in order to get the widget to display the rest of the data.
EDIT:
When I made GetSavedJSONObject(key) return an array of the Ids so
[1,2,3]
I was able to click on the widget to get the rest of the data. However, the desired outcome is being able to set the values of the widget (because I have the Id/Name pairs) without having to make the call to the datasource and being able to click on the widget to fetch the rest of the data)

Answer 1

Keeping my array of Objects and setting the serverFiltering: true attribute fixed the issue. Hope this saves someone else time. sigh